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I just ran across this article that talks about using this setup. the website is www.scarebird.com. This setup is a neat concept of a bracket they built for use on the C bodies or other cars that can let u use your stock drum pieces. This setup uses 1970-72 Ford Galaxie rotors and 1994-99 Dodge Ram 1500 calipers. This would make it possible to get a setup of using drilled and slotted rotors for like $90.00 when buying them from www.rockauto.com If anyone knows about this idea and if it works then cool. If not here is some info, lol I hope this may help or at least inform you guys of something else that is out there.
This is where I found out about this setup from Moparaction.com
�65-�73 C-BODIES
Early disc-equipped incarnations of these cars used Budd 4-piston brakes, later models had K-H pin type calipers. The K-H brakes are huge (1�" thick), in fact, they are more closely related to D-truck and B-van brakes than they are to any other Mopar passenger car. C-body disc brakes can't swap to/from any other Mopar passcars, and vice-versa. They are, literally, a class by themselves.
Along with the rest of Chrysler�s models, C-bodies went to 1- piece unicast rotors in 1973 (actually, C-bodies made the sap in late '72). This necessitated a knuckle redesign. The result is simple: for good, lowbuck brakes, with ready parts availability, you need to find a junked (or parked, if you�re quick) 1973 (or late '72) disc-equipped C-cruiser, and take everything (incl. rotors, calipers, knuckles, hoses, adapters, etc.) You won�t need the control arms, since they are identical from 1965 thru �73. For cars now equipped with 4-piston brakes, you will, however, need to swap the lower ball joints; but this is a blessing in disguise: The needed ball joints are way more common (read: cheaper!)
Another option for C-bodies is the Scarebird kit, see Mopar Action's December, 2009 issue. This uses stock drum knuckles, lowbuck custom adapter brackets, and a clever mix of parts-store components.
I'm currently in the process of doing the Scarebird kit... still waiting for the rotors and calipers and stuff to get here.
The drilled and slotted rotors tha Rock advertises for the 72 Galaxie weren't available when I ordered.. I would have bought them because they were only $10.00 more than the non drilled 'normal' ones. Oh well.
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How did it turn out? I've seen older forum posts talking about the previous scarebird kit, but nothing on the results of using ford galaxiy rotors. Very interested.... Thx
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IMO the scarebird kit dosent do anything the factory setup already dose - the ONLY advantage is availability
Just keep hunting, any post 69 cbody disc setup will work and can be pimped a bit - if you can get the calipers with 3" pistons (D truck?), you will have the ducks nuts in braking that will only be out braked by significantly larger rotors and the big dollars involved in attaching them (unless you work where you can get AMG parts cheap - lol)
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73 only spindles with unicast rotors is what i went with . Spindles are harder to come by and can be 250-300$ but rotors are only 60$ so its a trade off. I went a step further and used first gen viper / brembo calipers . There are kits to use big 13" rotors but very expensive. I built mine for @ 900$ . I had an ssbc kit that is k-h caliper style set up but are really for smaller cars and dont think are the best option for big heavy c bodies