Hey been building my first traditional hotrod and its on a tight budget and i geuss thats part of the thrill that is working with what you can find. Im not poor just not geting a steady pay due to the fact im still in school any hoot i have acouple questions as for what works and doesnt. these are some of the things i need can you'll tell me what cars i can find them from so i can look for them on craiglist or local junkyards. Mastercylinder -for an all disc brake setup. I hear from a corvette is what could work. i would get a MC that olderthat the 90 unless it looked good. I pulled a MC from a jeep look good but not sure what the jeep was running for brake so. What else comes factory with all discs. Hand emergency brake. Heard the corvete wasgoodforthis to is any sedan e brake fine??? Seats and belt- what looks good Fan and pulley- need it for a 250ci straight 6. are all the gm fansthe same and interchangable. whats the cut off years and engine sizes.?? Gen or Alternator?? Gas tank clutch pedal ***embly
i think you will find it alot easier and cheaper to go the more traditional route and just do drums, generator, etc, etc. You can probably find a cheap donor car with all the right stuff
Yip!go drums,same I'm doing with my '39.All pre '50 parts.Way easier to get parts that way,than to struggle making stuff fit that wasn't ment to be.I'm using as much as I can from the stock '39 pick-up.I've even build a slingshot intake for my flathead(same way guys would have done it back then).Keep us posted.
Jeep/AMC raided stuff from the Dodge and Ford people when it came to sourcing out brakes. if you got a Holden interchange manual or a local NAPA store, they could porbably cross reference stuff for you.
Can`t remember the part number but some mid to late 70 T/A`s had 4 wheel disks with standard brakes. This is the M/C that is on my bucket,2 Tricks to know with a M/C is one, the boar, anything bigger that a 1 inch boar will give you a hard peddle. Some use M/C`s that had power brakes and just don`t use the booster. These M/C`s have bores of 1 inch and bigger. You want a hard peddle then these will give it to you. Number two, what you need to look for is a M/C that the fluid chambers are the same front and rear and has a 3/4 or 7/8 inch boar. These M/C`s send the same pressure to both front and rear.It is when the M/C has two different chambers that the braking gets out of hand. You see people putting a front disk M/C on a 4 wheel drum setup and wonder why it lock the front tires. This is the same for a 4 wheel drum M/C used on a Disk front drums rear. Problem then is the rear locks up.
You can go to the auto store and buy a brand disc disc from raybestous. Then you know what it is. Corvette will be fine for your use. Can also get a rebuilt alt for $40, bucks. IMHO
My 4 wheel disc brake Comet uses Carquest part # 20-1485 non power master cylinder and Wildwood part# 260-2220 proportioning valve they seem to work ok on 2800lb car with GM Monticarlo based brakes .
disc disc mc comes from a grenada/monarch/versailles non-power $30 without the core. e-brake? make one up. its just a ratcheting lever pulling on a cable. seat? get your tape out and head to the bone yard. you'll find something clutch pedal, vern tardel has what you want... check his website out
STOP! Dont go mixing and matching brake components without knowing a few things. Their are many variables in MC bore size vs. WC or caliper bore size. 2 guys can pull an MC of what they think is the same car and have COMPLETELY different bore sizes based on engine,equiptment,year etc. I use a Wagner Brake Spec book when choosing components. You can see what the ENTIRE system in a particular car consists of. When you know the parameters, you can then search other sources to mate up properly.
I've talked with this guy over on Ebay, and even though he sells 'rat rod parts' some of his stuff looks pretty good. He builds it in his spare time at home, and sells his stuff really reasonably. You might check him out and go from there. http://stores.ebay.com/BOBS-RAT-ROD-PARTS_W0QQssPageNameZstrkQ3amefsQ3amesstQQtZkm
I already have a disc brake rear end and im going to buy a disc brake kit from a compoany, it a bolt on to my 30's solid axle. Kit uses 70-77 Camaro/Firebird 73-76 Chevelle/Monte Carlo rotor and caliper Are today's alternators fixed with internal regulators?? thanks
If you dont know EXACTLY what the original appl;ication was you can pull the pads out of the calipers and measure the bore. If you need any numbers, I have my Waqgner reference handy. I dig looking this stuff up! Sick huh?
Ah Fitzee !! The resivours have Nothing to do with the output pressure ,their job is only to hold reserve fluid. In my 35 years of pushing parts I never saw a dual/tandem master cylinder that had different bores for front and rear in the same housing.And that is the only way two different pressures could be obtained in the same master.
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