Fair price for front disc brake conversion

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agepag

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Looking to fo the front disc brake upgrade. Whats the going rate and can anyone recomend a good shopt in the GTA.
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Adrian
 
You can do it cheaply these days using some proprietary brackets from Scarebird and generic Toyota and GM parts from your local NAPA.

Mopar
 
Dr Diff kits are plug and play. Happy with my Dr Diff kit.
I did the conversion myself. Lots of painful issues with the brake lines as I replaced all lines with Inline tube products. If you are just converting to front disc it is fairly straightforward and easy.
Scarebird kits are good using Chevy cavilar calipers and Ford rotors, but not sure about what master cylinder is recommended.
With Dr Diff you get it all in one kit.
Before I tackled this myself I got some quotes that ran about $1500 labor plus the kit costs.
 
I'm in Ottawa and have a good pair of spindles w/caliper brackets for $100. They will need to be cleaned up and painted.

(they are 73+B,R,f,M,J spindles. The calipers brackets are for the 10.89" disks)
all the other associated parts are available at your favorite parts stores.

MOPAR disk spindles for your drum to disk conversion | Transmission & Drivetrain | Ottawa | Kijiji

Probably the easiest way but then you're looking at different front wheels with the later 5x4.5" bolt pattern.
 
I used the SSBC kit on my '71 Dart GT. Very complete kit. Also allows either the 5 on 4" SBP or the 5 on 4 1/2" LBP wheels. I run 14" X 5 1/2" Rallyes with no clearance issues. Can't speak if Cragars will clear. I got my kit through Mancini Racing for ~$830 about 10 years ago.
 
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