BBP conversion

63Tigerlily said

This all came about because I scored the original boster and was planning to upgrade her to the dual pot. But, the 13" wheels look stupid, and since I found the 14" 4.5 circle Astro Slots which require a bolt pattern upgrade.
OEM engineers got alot of stuff right, and after going through some aftermarket parts performance issues on my 39 ford, I don't want to reinvent the wheel.
The wife is also not super interested in changing anything. She just wants to drive it.

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oh, i understand completely.

to me the planned upgrade to a dual pot is a must no matter which braking choice to make. if you stick with factory bits, the upgrade is really not all that involved. the parts are out there, and you can put together the correct combo of components pretty reasonably.

one benefit that a lot of people over look is the ability to walk into a parts store and say in need [blank] brake part for [this huge production swath of cars] vs. i need [blank] brake part for a 63 dart and then be told it's NLA, doesn't exist on their computer or is special order only and ships from the mfgr on the 2nd full moon of the spring quarter.