Finned vs smooth brake drum
How about front drums for 9 inch ?
here we go 9 inch for the front in 4 inch pcd
Front Brake Drum, 9" : suit AP5 AP6 VC VE VF VG FITS Chrysler Valiant | eBay
R and s Series austrlian valiant (61/62 plymouth valiants imported in kit form all US parts )
Aussie production Ap5 up to VF series used 9 inch drums with 4 inch PCD
VG was the cross over year
VH- CL used 9 inch with 4.5 inch PCD but most had disc brakes...
so if you want 9 inch drums front or rear with 4 inch PCD serach VE Valiant on australian sites
if you want 9 inch drums front or rear with 4.5 inch PCD search VH valiant on australian sites
if you want finned 9 inch drums for the rear in 4 inch PCD look up VF VG valiant Pacer
if you want finned 9 inch rear drums with 4.5 inch PCD search VH valiant charger RT R/T
if you want disk brakes for the front on a small balljoint car the easiest to fit on a small ball joint car would be aussie disk stub axles and VJ valiant rotor hub caliper and bracket the stubs hubs and rotors are mopar specific but the calipers were used on mopars and GM holden and hence are still widely available and as usual 30% cheaper from the GM shop.
an aussie disk brake stub takes small balljoint and small bearing hub.
US brackets for slider calipers bolt on, its a 3.5 inch centres mount on the stub exactly like a US stub.
most aussie stuff is mid 60s A body all they did 1970/71 was move to the bigger PCD
numerous different calipers were used
VE solid rotors unique caliper
VFVG/VH solid then vented rotors Kelsey hayse pin slider on a bracket
VJ onwards Girlock slider bracket like a claw with plates to hold on floating claiper much Like USA A M body but just different enough to ngate mix and match
later used a PBR caliper
all cars had 13 or 14 inch wheels
Valiants in Oz
loosly grouped around US content and start off close to US models
R/S 61 62 (plymouth Exner design)
Ap5 Ap6 looks like an early baracuda (A P stands for australian production versions 1-5 were fins n chrome 50s cars based on dodges.. too early to worry about)
VC 67
VD obvioulsy not used nobody wants a car with VD
the dart like bodies
VE 68
VF 69
VG 70
Unique aussie designed A body front with mid 60s B body width rear end cars
VH/CH 71
VJ Cj 74
VK 76
CL CM to the end of production in 81/82 used bigger brakes and PBR calipers
for people in countries where you need to import parts anyway..if you go hunting in Australia you will find early A body compatible parts
keep in mind total production of aussie mopar cars 61-82 amounted to about the same as 1 model year in US. small retail market = higher prices
this may have errors i live in the uK and was last in Australia 20 + years ago.... use a mid point model VE 4 inch pcd and VH 4.5 inch pcd to search.
keep in mind this is Chrylser/Mopar nobody redesigned anything unless they had to..... satellite companies in far flung places just used last years US technology unless local content rules dicated say...a local axle or a transmission....like in OZ
australian drums never had the big flared cooling skirt that some early a body US ones did
Dave
