Has anyone converted their drum brakes to disc brakes? and if so what did you do(parts, tutorial, ect...)

 

have you tried searching by chance? if you havent you will be ripped apart piece by piece compliments of your good friends here at EvoM
so yes, this topic has been covered quite a few times, so do a quick search and you will find what you are looking for

 

 

i would give u the info if i had it, im interested in this also. im going to search too.

 

RPW has a kit that converts the rear to disc, but it runs around $1200 if I recall and can mess with your brake bias a bit meaning you may not stop as quickly, do some searches and you can find all the info you seek.

 

so one ? after searching... for the totally inept.. (me) so is it safe to assume ALL 05 lancer es have discs in front?

 

I don't know of any car in production now that has drum brakes in the front.

 

I would be safe to assume that all cars past 1940 have discs in the front.

 

well, I know one of my mechanic buddies had an old datsun while he was in highschool, had drum brakes in the front

 

we had a 60's mustang with drums all around at the shop i work at

 

Yeah it was the 70s that really started giving front drums the boot. That was listed as a major feature on my dad's 69 Mustang.

And yes, many people have thought about the rear disc conversion, but most people decide that it's too expensive and doesn't help performance much. RPW is the only way as far as I know, and there were some theories about getting the parts from a Puerto Rican Lancer that has rear discs, but nobody did that yet. This is all coming from threads on this I have read, but I'm too lazy to run a search for them right now.

 

thanks fer answering a dumb ? . .. again!

 

i have the kit rpw for drum to disc.... but its not easy to install its.. Most of the parts didn't fit, therefores you would have to make them

 

It shouldn't make you stop slower. It will probably make your rear wheels lock more easily and may cause the rear end to get squirrely under hard braking.

 

There is a write up on the Mirage forums somewhere and if I had the link on my desktop i'd give it to everyone, but I have it on the laptop and it's down now.