First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... You will gain resistance against brake fade with the front kit. You will be able to stop the car from 80 MPH within a resonable distance. You are surrounded by modern cars that can stop from high speeds within short distances and they have antilock brakes. I had a 68 Firebird brand new when I was sixteen years old. That second or third stop from 50 or 60 miles per hour when the light turned red was just not happening. The brakes would fade out and the car would just keep going. From 100 MHP, the car wasn't stopping, it was slowing. If you roll around in parades, the original drum brakes are fine. If you will mix things up in real traffic or drive the car as hard as you might drive a modern Honda Civic, you will want to put front disc brakes on your car. Rear brakes will improve stopping distance and fade, but the difference won't be as important, especially if you don't drive the car hard. Carcraft had an excellent article you can find with a google search on Camaro brakes. they measured stopping distances in various brake configurations. The difference from 100 MPH to zero for disc brakes vs original four wheel drum brakes was amazing. I'm recalling 4:1 difference. On a 1/4 mile track, you would need another 1/4 mile to stop your bone stock bird with the original drum brake system. If you hop from your modern sedan into your Firebird, the lack of high speed stopping power could really catch you by surprise. I put front disc as "must have" and rear discs as depending on the car's use. Larry
--- On Mon, 6/2/08, Meyer, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Meyer, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [FGF] OK to do business with? To: "First Generation Firebird-L" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 5:00 PM First Generation Firebird-L Mailing List ......................................................................... Thanks everyone for the quick response, any thoughts on changing over to disk brakes? How much will I really gain if I do it? David Meyer Field Service Engineer Wood Group TCS Inc. Office (970) 669-0801 Direct (970) 292-2826 Cell (970) 227-0027 Fax (970) 669-1299 www.woodgroup.com : <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions to Firebird-L: <[email protected]> Unsubscribe from Firebird-L: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Help: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/firebird/Firebird-L.html> Classifieds: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/ubb/> Owner Pictures: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/show/> Donations: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store/cart.mv?999999> FGF Merchandise: <http://FirstGenFirebird.org/store>
