<VV> Muscle car brakes Matrix Ceramic brake shoes for Late Corvairs

[James Davis]

Back in 2000 Norm Helmkay recommended, I use Poertfield's carbon-kevlar
brake shoes.  They turned out to be the best shoes I had ever used in my
then 40 years of driving Corvairs.  Both of my current Corvairs have
Poterfield's R-4S compound shoes front and rear.  For the front disk, it
depends on the wheel size. If the wheels are 15" or larger I would go with
the 12.2" dia rotor Wilwood kit 140-7675.  That is what I used on #388.  No
problems inthe 14 years I ran with this combination.
Jim Davis

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:47 PM larry--- via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> In case anyone is interested in performance brakes for their Late
> Corvairs, I posted this message below to the Ultravan Tech page:
>
> I received a photo of Muscle Car Brakes MCB-241 front shoes for
> Chevelle, which should fit the Ultravan four wheels. I compared their
> photo to stock rear Late Corvair brakes and they are identical. Based on
> that I ordered two sets of the MCB-241s for the rear of the Ultravan and
> the rear of my 65 Monza. Since I will be upgrading the front Ultravan
> brakes to disk brakes, I'll not do those right now. Anyone else could
> order two sets for all around the Ultravan. BTW, the rears for the
> Chevelle will fit the fronts of Corvair Lates and their part number is
> MCB-242. Currently they are $124.95 per front or rear set (2 wheels each
> part number). I ordered one set for the Monza. Note that they are
> increasing their prices 1 Dec. so order asap if you are thinking of
> upgrading. They told me their coefficient of friction is 0.42 versus the
> stock of 0.25. Resulting in less detrimental damage to the drums, less
> pedal effort and less fade, more positive braking resulting in shorter
> stopping distances. I will test the resulting shorter stopping distances
> using my G-Tech Pro.
>
> Muscle Car Brakes web site is:  musclecarbrakes.com
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