Disc Brakes on Early A's - What solution did you choose and why?

Jp5 said

i did the scarebird conversion on my 65 valiant. SBP 14" steelies. the brackets came with a shopping list that i took to napa and got everything i needed. the swap was fairly easy after some adjustments, i've got good stopping power. all together i think it cost about 250$. had to press out my wheel studs, do some grinding on the calipers, and re-plium from my new master cylinder but in the end i've got much more effective brakes that the original drums.

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you do know that you can get the hubs redrilled for BBp once and never have to drill a rotor again for the SBp since the rotors for the scarebird are 5 on 4.5 . That's what I did on mine for ease of finding parts when I'm on the road.



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I like to Daily Drive em if I can and it isn't even MY car it's a friends:D. Damn good friend if I say so myself! Got over 4 k on the plymouth myself now and will have another 1k on it when It get's put up for the michigan winter in 2 weeks so I can head home finally. 65's the scarebird conversion and the 69 charger's conversion is next year(gonna drive the crap out of it when I get back up here) . Challenger is stock manual disc


I liked the not having to take it in for front end alignment too!(haven't learned how to do the front end alignment at home exactly right yet, but it WILL happen) That won't happen if you have to change spindles or upper control arms even doing the stock mopar to mopar donor switch.

Since I'm not carvin corners the 9" spindles and grade 8 replacement bolts will be sturdy enough. I have never broken a spindle but have broken a ball joint bolt (hit a curb on ice #$@% taking the car to the storage facility i day too late) that won't happen now since my cars are in florida