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You don’t need rear drums. Save your money.
A couple big decisions on my road runner restoration - help me decide.
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Keeping stock rear drums, this would an upgrade to the front drums.
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Do front discs, and stock rear drums. Big improvement. No need for rear discs.
Check out my thread. Same body I changed over from a green interior to a white interior. I put headers on. I put a air grabber hood on and it’s semi functional. I can control it from interior just as the stock one. But I didn’t have the money for the air intake assembly so I came up with a mechanical design that works really well. White interior is stunning.
I did everything myself painted the car interior metalwork everything.
1970 Plymouth Sport Satellite from Junk to......
torredcuda
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I'm adding the air grabber and have the parts but I'm not going to cut any holes in the firewall so I am going to use some type of electric/mechanical actuator to make it work.
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The proper word is "whateverthehellyoulikeandifanybodydontlikeittoodamnbad"I personally don't get it when people ask what color to paint their car. There are only 2 options: If you want it stock, paint it stock. If you don't? Paint it whateverthehellyoulike.
torredcuda
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I asked for others opinions to simply HELP me make mine as bottom line it is my car so I`ll build it my way. I bet if I mentioned putting on tractions bars or swapping in an LS engine I`d get a lot of opinions whether I wanted them or not!
t.flatt
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I worked in a detail shop for a while and white interiors suck!! Not many cars had them, but the boats, what a nightmare! I'm also sticking with 4 drums and no booster on my car.
I used an electric motor in my set up.
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Color interior is your choice, but I believe it was you that stated that the next owner would be when you are dead, so make it yours. Your car has black interior and to change to a correct white interior only requires seat covers and door panels, because everything else was black.
torredcuda
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plus visors, head rests, arm rests, headliner and A-pillar trim.
Door panels and seat covers are super expensive. I got mine from legendary auto interiors. They took about a year to get.
torredcuda
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They don`t reproduce the Medium Grade door panels I need but I have found and bought two sets of pretty decent used ones in brown and blue so I will need to dye the whether I go black or white. Pic is for reference.
The way folks drive these days, a disc swap is almost mandatory.
Sue was born with front disc brakes and she stops quite a bit better than my first 1972 Satellite Sebring Plus which had drums all around and I had to stand on the brake pedal to get her to stop.
Sue was also born with a white interior & one of the first thing I replaced was seat covers. I kept getting the new seats dirty whenever I worked on something else, so I ended up getting cheap black seat covers to go over the new white legendary covers so they would stay clean for days I take Sue out and about. White is just really hard to keep clean…….
Sue was also born with a white interior & one of the first thing I replaced was seat covers. I kept getting the new seats dirty whenever I worked on something else, so I ended up getting cheap black seat covers to go over the new white legendary covers so they would stay clean for days I take Sue out and about. White is just really hard to keep clean…….
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I must be lucky...or they're just dialed in real well, but the 4 drums (non power) on my 70 Charger stop it just fine. There's not much in reserve...but normal stops from as much as 80 or 85, zero drama, normal pedal pressure...
That said, I may still convert it to power front discs....but I hate to give up the factory wheels and covers. So for now....I'll keep rocking the drums.
That said, I may still convert it to power front discs....but I hate to give up the factory wheels and covers. So for now....I'll keep rocking the drums.
If it works that well why change it?
Is that a boy named Sue?
torredcuda
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I`ve decided to stick with drums for now as I`m thinking of using 14" chrome slots on the front with 15"` on back for the `70`s rake look. I`ll upgrade to the best shoes I can find and see if I`m happy with them and I can always change to discs later.
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