Thanks for the reply Larry,
Well I've done the conversion to disc brakes already, but I'm concerned
about spinning the car around when I have to hit the brakes, "Hard"! Do you
know if these earlier cars are prone to locking up the fronts after being
converted to discs?
I know that disc brakes require less pressure and fluid to get the same job
done and when AH went to a standard disc brake in the front they also
reduced the size of the MC bore from 7/8 to ¾, was this the reason?
I'm hopping that I'll get responses from racers, who have been there and
done that.
My car is still not running, I'm sending the MC to Joe up at Sierra
Specialty Automotive to get sleeved. As it turns out it looks my brake
problem was my MC all along, I think. I'll be glad when I get past this
braking problem cause I'm getting very impatient and want to put in my 120
HP engine, and I'm not doing it till I can stop as fast as I can take off.
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry and Sandi Miller [SMTP:millerls@email.msn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 12:38 PM
To: Andrew Griffith; 'Christopher Palmer';
spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Disc conversion
Drew
The early cars had a single line split at the 4-way union with no
proportioning valve. You can graft the complete brake system from a
later
car if you want or you can just do the drums to disk conversion and
leave
everything else alone (What I Did).
If you go to the later dual line system it does require some
reworking of
the mounting hole. The later brake box is shorter and wider.
Larry
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Griffith <Andrew.Griffith@ReadRite.com>
To: 'Christopher Palmer' <ctp@gbn.org>; spridgets@autox.team.net
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: 13 January, 1999 12:28 PM
Subject: RE: Disc conversion
>I've got a question regarding the earlier single brake line cars
that
>originally came with front drums... When the front brakes are
converted to
>discs should a different proportioning valve be used when running a
modified
>engine? Do these early cars even use one? My '62MKII seem to only
use a
>"4-way" union.
>
>Thanks,
>-Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Palmer [SMTP:ctp@gbn.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 11:29 AM
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Disc conversion
>
> Technical note -
>
> Many don't realize that the rear brakes on any car provide only
>around
> 30-40% of the braking force applied. In a car as light as a
>spridget, for
> street use, drums are plenty on the rear.
>
> ctp
>
>
> At 9:30 AM -0800 1/13/99, Ulix Goettsch wrote:
> >On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Neesham, Ted wrote:
> >
> >> I would like some comments on a conversion of drums to disc. I
>realise the
> >> later Sprites had front discs, but any suggestions for all
round
>discs?
> >
> >Not many people do this, because the Spridget is extremely light
in
>the
> >rear. Discs on the rear won't give you much if any improvement
in
>total
> >braking.
> >
> > Ulix __/__,__
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> > '67 Sprite '74
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