Home brew cars

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by Bob Verwold

The best thing to do is keep the rule book handy the whole time your getting the car ready....I do think I would go with disc brakes on all four corners, had drums on the back of my 64 and they seemed to fade after a few passes so went to disc and everything worked fine after that..........Living in Ind you might ck out Moser for the rear end.

Bob,

We've considered disc's on the rear. With a 9", could look for factory parts. Did you go with Wilwoods or Aerospace or some such? I already have finished the housing, it's cut and been fitted, all the brackets are welded, except for wheelie bars. When I replace the spool and axles, will go with Moser pieces.

As for the rear drums. It's one of those things, never had any problems with the car stopping in the past. I imagine, this suspension upgrade will liven the car up? I was discussing this with my buddy the other nite. With the old ladder bar SU, which was too short and never really right. When the car was originally assembled, in 1979, the guy that built it for me, had good intentions, his experience was based on the only other car he ever built. Which did hold an IHRA record at the time. The car left hard, went straght and tracked well. Just never reacted like I thought a car should, based solely on what I saw similar cars do.

So, now 20 years later, I'm attempting to fix the "sins of the past".