I've seen some on ebay but I was wondering why not just go with bigger/betters brakes? I saw some c6 conversions on some buicks and I'm wondering what is needed to do a swap like that. Do you just need spindles and adapters? I'm still lost on this because I can find about 0 information on it unfortunately....
There was a Post on here a while ago about using mid seventies riv parts on the early ones ,spindles and everything else bolts on supposedly. Booster ,master ,prop valve can be used you just need to make the lines ,which isn't to bad.
Thanks for the info. My problem is that if I want to upgrade to "big brakes" I would need a whole new bracket right?
If any parts from 70'2 Rivs can bolt on to 1st gen Rivs, we certainly don't know about it. The 1st gen Riv uses reaction rods with the lower control arms. I know that rotors from a 76 Riv fit on the 1st gen spindles, but beyond that I don't know. The Scarebird brackets work OK. I did have welds break on one of them, but they are OK. I will say this: the brake pedal feel isn't as good as with the drums. And I had to use a disc brake master cylinder and a 10 pound residual valve in the rear lines to make the system work well. So it isn't a straight bolt on. There is some extra work needed. You have to plumb in a hold off valve and the aforementioned residual valve. This takes the effort of flaring and bending brake lines. Overall my Riv stops better when I have to drop anchor after the traps. But if I was only using it as a daily driver I'd have preferred to leave the drums on it.
I was just going through my resto-notebook in the garage yesterday.... and for ome reason I wrote down that spindles from a '70 electra will bolt up on my '67 Riv. Seems like it would be the same for the '66. Now the reason I have that info? No idea. The only thing I can think is that I read it somewhere on the inter-web and jotted it down. Can anyone tell me if there's validity to this? I know on my '67 Mustang that I had previously built, the entire front brake setup from an early 70s Granada bolted in like it was supposed to be there. Perhaps this wrks the same?
My 61 LeSabre has the Corvette front disc brakes on it (done before I got it). Boris at Street Machinery in Ohio (way2lo2 on ebay) sells the parts and I think can do the machine work necessary to convert yours, but it isn't cheap. http://www.streetmachinery.zoomshare.com/
I am working on a swap for my 69 Riv and will be using Jeep SRT8 14" rotors (5x5 bolt pattern) and Brembo 4 piston calipers. I have all the parts and just need to start tearing into it. I will have to either turn the diameter down on the hub on the outer bearing area or open the rotor up. Then it will just be a matter of making the flat anchor bracket for the caliper. I am into parts for $390 so far, that is a pair of zinc plated cross drilled rotors and a set of take off loaded calipers with mounts. I will eventually do the rear with the same SRT8 parts from the rear of the Jeep for the Riv.
I found a '70 Riv single piston disc brake setup for my '66. Also had to get a set of the disc brake style road wheels. The original '66 wheels won't fit on the disc brake hubs.
