rearend swap

stroker mike said

Hey rumblefish, did you run drums or disc conversion? My cuda has large bolt disc setup on front, but 7 1/4 small bolt pattern w/drums back. I can get another 7 1/4 w/large pattern, but I'm afraid I'll blow it to pieces with my combo, so anyway I'd like to learn if it is cost effective to do disc brake conversion in back. I am searching for 8 1/4 or 8 3/4 now, but alot of what I see online has no brakes, so at that point I could go either way, but I don't know how hard that might be, to put in discs, what is a proportioning valve? Thanks, Mr. 318, I'm right behind ya!

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Sorry about the delay there Mike;

On the front;
I have not yet got to the front disc conversion. I'm useing A body upper A arms with Cordoba 11-3/4 discs. I just need Volrar brake lines and time. (TIME! HA ha ha ha)

On the rear;
I got the rear without backing plates. Just the way I wanted it. I put on 11 inch drums. This is a practice of "On the cheap" as much as possible. I just can't remember where I seen a cheap conversion done, but I did see it online somewhere.

I'd rather do a new ssbc or equal system myself. But thats not happening. OH! They have adjustable vales for a project like this.