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I used a Scarebird conversion on my Scamp and it's been great for 3 years now. And when I eventually need new pads, it won't be difficult to find them. Only embarassing to ask for the Cavalier pads..lol

MTANDREWS, am I mistaken or is that the Rev. Gary Davis in your avatar? The pictures a little small and grainy for me to be sure.

Hey Timdart, it amazes me that there is such a following for American muscle cars in Europe. I saw quite a few when I was over there in 84, although I don't recall seeing any A bodies. I do recall that Lucerne Switzerland was swarming with 66 and 67 Mustangs, I saw several including a silver 67...

Timdart, glad you found the writeup informative and entertaining. Just a note though, on this side of the pond we spell it "humor"... lol. I had the opportunity to spend some time in England in 1984 (which seems like a couple of lifetimes ago) and found that English truly IS a foriegn language...

Well, I HAD 10 inch drums all the way around, and in my opinion they WERE that bad...I got tired of the brake fade coming down the rather large hill that I have to go over regularly and the sharp pull to the right anytime I had to apply the brakes even moderately quickly. I adjusted on those...

Johnnydart, one of my main reasons for going with the Scarebird setup was to keep my small pattern rallyes. Have you tried pricing (or even finding) the small pattern Kelsey-Hayes disc setup? And even if you DO find one, rotors and calipers have gotten scarcer than hen's teeth. It just didn't...

Dartman, I thought long and hard about doing the swap, I knew I wanted discs, but I didn't know which way I wanted to go. The deciding factors for me were money and the desire to keep my small pattern rallye wheels.

Well, the swap is done, and it was an experience to say the least. First the good. The parts that Mark at Scarebird provided were well made and fit perfectly. His directions were pretty good, and once on they worked as advertised and the car finally stops straight and sure. Now the bad... The...

I've never dealt with them, but there's a company called inline tube that has kits with brake and fuel line clips, you can find them at www.inlinetube.com. Hope that helps.

The only problem with that master cylinder is that it's a two bolt pattern cylinder where yours is a 4 bolt. I know people use them, so there's got to be a fix, but I prefer to keep things simple when possible. I'd try for an orignal style cylinder, it shouldn't be that hard to find.

The problem (s) with keeping your drum/drum master cylinder with a disc/drum setup are that first you need a bigger resevoir for the brake fluid for the disc brakes. Calipers require a lot more brake fluid than wheel cylinders to operate. Think about it.. the large bore of a caliper vs. the...

I agree that the original style bearings are the best, although I have never used anything else. There are literally millions of rear ends out there with well over 100,000 miles on them with original bearings that are still fine. Unless my memory is failing the green bearings were originally...

Has anyone actually done one of the conversions to front discs with the Scarebird Mechanical kit? I REALLY want to keep my small-pattern rallyes and have been considering this swap. Not to mention it looks like you can do it CHEAP. They basically sell you a bracket to bolt on your spindle and...