front disk brake conversion kit

BillGrissom said
People here don't believe me, but tires stop the car, so if your brakes can stop the tires rotating that is the best any brakes can do. Brake until just before the tires skid for max braking. The problem with drum brakes is that they will overheat and fade from constant braking but if not road-racing or "riding the brakes" down long grades you shouldn't experience that.

People don’t believe you because that isn’t actually true.

If being able to skid the tires was the only measure of braking, then the 10” drum and the 73+ disk brakes would have the same stopping distance. They do not.

The same could be said about the rear brakes too, they only provide 20-30% of the braking and the later big bolt pattern 10x2.5” drums are more than capable of locking up the rear wheels. And yet a disk conversion still shortens the stopping distance. The article is in the other drum brake thread currently circulating, and that was like to like for tires in the article.

BillGrissom said
Scarebird, Wilwood, and a few other kits let you keep your current spindles, balljoints, and wheels.

Not true completely true. Wilwood disks will not let you keep factory 5x4” wheels. The center hub diameter on the Wilwood disks is over 3”.