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Who sells 11 inch rear drum brake upgrade kits
Decided to keep my 71 GTO simple and after reading all of the posts I will most likley upgrade to 11 inch rear drums. Is anyone aware of who may sell an upgrade kit to do this? Rear is 12 bolt 3:55 ratio.
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https://techtalk.mpbrakes.com/drum-b...or-gm-and-ford This looks like a nice kit.
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Don't believe MasterPower is currently offering the 11" rear drum "upgrade" kit, has been asked about before. If you're dead set on going down the 11" rear drum path, not that hard to source a removed pair of rear backing plates from a '75-77 GP rear or other late '70's early 80's 11" GM B series rear drum car. Both parking brake cables exit forward at the bottom on these, unlike the passenger side on the later '80's B-body version which has a rear exit on the pass side backing plate. Rebuild with new brakes shoes & small parts. Cheap 11" brake drums are avail new for around $40-45 a piece. In the past, putting such a swap together for a customer, I reused original 11" smoothie style drums off a late '60's Impalla for this swap.
Personally, on my own Pontiac restorations, am not a fan of the 11" drum rear swap. I also like to able to swap on 9.5" diam alum rear brake drums. Less weight/less mass. Thus years ago, when the company was still known as PraiseDyno Brakes I began to order their brake in box true upgraded 9 1/2" diam drum brake kits. For the last 15 or so years, the company iscknown as www.musclecarbrakes.com. These kits include special high matrix compound brake shoes, stiffer springs, along w 1/16" larger diam wheel cylinders. Not a cheap entry level drum brake rebuild kit, but the combination of parts provides quite a bit better braking /lack of brake fade. In swapping over to the musclecarbrakes kit, there are 3 loose stamped steel brake pieces that will need to be reused from an original drum brake asm. Also the four T shaped "rods" that that go into the wheel cylinders. If yours are badly pitted, can buy those small pieces new from Inline Tube. There is also one new stamped steel trailing bracket & small hook bracket that will test most anyone's abilities to assemble the spring on. Took a while to solve the latter issue.
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I spoke to MP brakes and they no longer offer the upgrade kit to 11" drums. They claimed the backing plates were too expensive to make.
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Master Power Brakes (believe in North Carolina) used to have a kit with loaded 11 inch brakes, ready to bolt onto popular GM rear ends. I don't know if they still market that. Years ago, thought about buying those, from the pick a parts, mostly from colonnade cars, but decided against it, due to amount of legwork, hassle and finding the buyers.
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Strange Engineering
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Nope Strange does not carry this anymore.
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i just bought a set this year ill have to check if it was strange or moser
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i think i have a set of the backing plates if needed
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That would be great. How much and where in NY are you located?
If you prefer PM me.
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1971 GTO Convertible 455 #64 Heads, HO intake and carb with MSD HEI, RAIII exhaust manifolds and 3:55 posi |
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just looked the scrap guy took the rear with some other stuff, Sorry
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I have a couple of sets off of 77 & 78 B-body wagons if you are interested.
Sorry I just realized the wagons bolt pattern is 5X5 not 5X4 3/4 sorry
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