53-54 chevy disc brake kit?????

[low springs]

since i'm doing the V8 swap on my 54. i'm going to need to stop a lot better. no more white knuckles for me.

who has the best kit available? i don't need the master cyl just front disc kit. Speedway has a good one but they have to machine your spindle. i just want a straight forward kit.

thanks

[low springs]

for the morning crowd.

[v8minor]

I just sent for one from fatmans with a eci disc kit ,its for a 50 are they the same.

[41ChevyTrucker]

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since i'm doing the V8 swap on my 54. i'm going to need to stop a lot better. no more white knuckles for me.

who has the best kit available? i don't need the master cyl just front disc kit. Speedway has a good one but they have to machine your spindle. i just want a straight forward kit.

thanks

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ECI
http://www.ecihotrodbrakes.com/early_chevy_discbrake_conversions.html

or this guy...

http://www.inliners.org/buffalo

[low64]

Have you checked Stainless Steel Brakes. I think they make a bolt on kit for your car.

[KopyKat]

What master cylinder are you going to use?

[Tman]

ECI, you can buy just the basic kit with brkts or the ful thing with rotos and calipers.

I still dont understand why you guys cant make your 54s stop? My 4 wheel drums work VERY well.

[zman]

I agree with 41ChevyTrucker's suggestion ECI, I've used their kits. They seem to be the best bang for the buck, they work well, and they stand behind their stuff.

[primered54]

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ECI, you can buy just the basic kit with brkts or the ful thing with rotos and calipers.

I still dont understand why you guys cant make your 54s stop? My 4 wheel drums work VERY well.

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I am going to go with the ECI set up on mine (MC & disks, etc). My '54 stops pretty good with stock drums up front and camaro rear end, but not good enough. I wanna get rid of the single MC and go with a double for safety... while doing that I figure it's not that much more work for the discs. Having driven a friends '49 with discs it is A LOT better... especially when going down the highway at about 90 MPH and traffic starts to come to a quick stop!

Not too hijack this post, but does anybody know if there's any issues with using the disc brake set up with Fatman dropped uprights & steering arms??? It seems like the inner tire/brake bracket/or caliper would come awfully close to the tie rod end...

[low springs]

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ECI, you can buy just the basic kit with brkts or the ful thing with rotos and calipers.

I still dont understand why you guys cant make your 54s stop? My 4 wheel drums work VERY well.

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do you have a V8 set up? do you also have a dual MC?

i had a 64 chevelle before with a single jar MC. i had to start slowing down about a block before i had to?

[low springs]

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What master cylinder are you going to use?

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i'm going to use an adapter kit. here is the link. http://ecihotrodbrakes.com/master_cylinder_adapter_kits.html

[KopyKat]

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What master cylinder are you going to use?

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i'm going to use an adapter kit. here is the link. http://ecihotrodbrakes.com/master_cylinder_adapter_kits.html

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Thanks, when do you think you'll be installing all of this. I ask because I have a 53 Chevy and will be re-doing the brakes sometime next month also...

[low springs]

hopefully with in the next few weeks. i'll keep you posted.

[primered54]

There's been a couple of posts on this recently which has been a big help to me. I've been eagerly following them cause I am probably ordering my kit in the next couple of weeks. Hillbilly Hotrodder suggested the ECI kit... he did his about 5 years ago and said he'd do it all over again... and that it was pretty simple taking only about 3 hrs (most of which was doing the plumbing). I asked him a bunch of questions about it. If you got any other questions about it, PM me and I got all his answers saved!

[Tman]

My 54 has the RIGHT dual MC. I cant tell you what it is cause you prob wont have the same combo of wheel cyl bore sizes as I do http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Thats the key

[Jkustom]

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I still dont understand why you guys cant make your 54s stop? My 4 wheel drums work VERY well.

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Yeah mine too! Its all about radiusing the shoes to fit the drum they fit it, so you get 100% of thier surface on the drum..... I do this to all my drum brakes. -J.