Anyone interested in starion rear disc brake conversion?

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Anyone interested in starion rear disc brake conversion?

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I wanted to see if anyone is interested in this. It's quite a upgrade from the stock drums on a early galant. This setup is designed to bolt onto a 74 galant rear live axle. Basically it adapts flat body starion rear disc brakes inplace of your old drums.

I currently have one set on my 74 galant coupe, and they have been on there for about 3 years now. I think these will provide more stopping power than a galant would probably ever need even on the track.

The setup wont include anything to make your ebrake work, you should be able to adapt the starion ebrake lines fairly easily though.

I will be test fitting these on my lb lancer this week, but I am pretty sure they will work.

Anyhow, if there is enough interest I will consider getting a small run of them made. They shouldnt be too expensive. It depends on how many are made and what kind of pricing I can get.

Iw illg et some pictures of the bracket by itself when I pull it off to test on the lancer.

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Re: Anyone interested in starion rear disc brake conversion?

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city hunter wrote:I wanted to see if anyone is interested in this. It's quite a upgrade from the stock drums on a early galant. This setup is designed to bolt onto a 74 galant rear live axle. Basically it adapts flat body starion rear disc brakes inplace of your old drums.

I currently have one set on my 74 galant coupe, and they have been on there for about 3 years now. I think these will provide more stopping power than a galant would probably ever need even on the track.
they only have one problem is getting good pads for them.
I use starion brakes all round with out a booster but a 3/4" M/C
for the front I have been able to get Potterfield Carbon Kevlar pads these are great
they seem to work at all temps - dont fade even when getting a true working over
but no one keeps them for the rears here
I was just wondering what you guys use in the states
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Re: Anyone interested in starion rear disc brake conversion?

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Hey steve i read some good things about QFM check out this thread, apparently they can do starion stuff > http://performanceforums.com/forums/sho ... 228&page=2
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Re: Anyone interested in starion rear disc brake conversion?

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karl_2ltgc wrote:Hey steve i read some good things about QFM check out this thread, apparently they can do starion stuff > http://performanceforums.com/forums/sho ... 228&page=2
I will sus them out Karl
I would however like to get some porterfield rears the front pads are the best I had in the thing
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...flat body starion


What does this mean to me? what models are we talking about?



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Re: Anyone interested in starion rear disc brake conversion?

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The American flatbody's are basically the same Starion as we got, but with a 2.6.

The widebodys had the 2.6 as well, but also had wider guards, wider wheels, etc.
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