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Discs Or Drums?
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but here goes:
What is better rear discs, or rear drums? |
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Rear discs obviously look better, and have a bit more stopping power. But they are brakes from a 1.2 tonne car going on a 500kg car, so you wont really notice it.
So it all depends on what you have to hand or what you would prefer to buy. Thats my thinking anyway.
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My preferance would be discs cos i hate all the fiddly springs and auto adjuster type bits in drums.
but by using drums my choice of donor cars opens up. |
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And people are having problems with drum rears being too effective already
I have 10" drums for mine, and will be using 260 vented disks up front. TT
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And..
If you have ever owned a disk brake sierra you will probably have suffered the sticking handbrake. On a car that gets limited useage it will be even more of a problem. TT
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if using drums opens up the donor options then use drums, they are more than good enough in such a light car, why make things more difficult with your choice of donor
the average sierra was approx 1100kgs, the Roadster is between 500 to 650kgs , so the brakes are plenty capable of stopping a Roadster cheers andy
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Adrian,
I am thinking we are talking internal measurement? Otherwise I have got 9 ½ “ drums. Do the 19.05mm slave cylinders come from the 8” Sierra drums? Cheers Ginge
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Surely 2 disks up front will be plenty Drums for me
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