13.8 Rear Disc Conversion for the truck 10-bolt in the works

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I dont visit here much, but so the words out there, I will be posting these bracket for sale in the for sale section when I have some.

Finally made some real progress on doing something about the rear disc conversion. Its really a conversion becuase the donor brakes came off of a 2002+ Dodge Ram 1500. Story behind my choice is pretty short. They had all of my requirements, large, internal parking brake, and 5 lug. Another reason why I chose the Dodge is because the parking brake components are 1/2 the price of the Camaros (100ish compared to the 50, plus they are Bigger and Wider!)... not like you go through them or anything, but when the time arrises kinda deal.

To start off, I picked up all of the rear brakes complete less than the parking brake cables for a steal of a deal! I even got the caliper mounting bracket which unfortunatly just couldnt be modified to work. Well off to desiging my own brackets. Took a while figuring out how exactly I was going to do it but this is that I've come up with. I printed a copy of the brackets and transfered them to sheetmetal and made a set of brackets and it works.. spacing wise that is. As far as the rotor, I just made a template in AutoCad and drilled them myself. Spot on! I still have not done the math on which master cylinder I should use or how to mod the prop valve. I plan to do that soon though as the brackets should be arriving in about a week. I didnt choose the Impala SS brake setup simply becuase its only 12" rotor. My logic is if I'm going to do all of this work, mine as well get something large and common (common in the wrecking yard... Impala SS' are not). I have not attempted at making the parking brake work yet becuase I want to make sure the caliper bracketry is spot on, so far it is. It can be an option whether or not you want it....
check out the pic's.





Sorry for the large picture, but I dont have CS2 loaded on this computer.
clint