<VV> Disc Brakes

[Jim Houston]

How do you get the speedometer to work with the disks??

Jim Houston
Brandon, FL

Ed Dowds wrote:

>> Anybody check out scarebird's website?    Lots of stuff
>
> there.    They market  brackets and mount hardware that allows you to
> adapt disks to a Vair without having to swap out the spindles.
> http://scarebird.com/6928.html
> tony..<
>
> I put some Scarebird brackets on the '65 Corvair front end in my 
> friend's streetrod. Scarebird had a first run of brackets that mounted 
> the calipers too high. The upper caliper mounting bolts would hit the 
> upper A-frame in a turn. We called Scarebird and he made new brackets 
> which mount the calipers a little lower. The corrected brackets have 
> the upper caliper bolt at the same height as the large hole in the 
> spindle. To mount the brackets you need longer grade eight bolts for 
> the steering arms. You can either cut down the stock large upper bolt 
> or get a large grade eight bolt and make a bushing to locate the bolt 
> correctly in the bracket and spindle. There are no mods needed on the 
> spindle. The hub must have its outer diameter turned down to fit the 
> 4wd S-10 rotor. We couldn't find an auto parts store willing to turn 
> it down on their brake lathe to we ended up having it done in a 
> regular machine shop. We replaced the wheel mounting studs with 68-82 
> Corvette studs (longer) but I don't think it was actually necessary 
> with steel wheels. The entire job was pretty easy.
>                       Ed
>
>
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