why do i have drum brakes?

[mcG]

my firebird's front wheels have the disc brakes, but the rear wheels have the drum brakes. why is this? it's a 97. i see old a$$ hondas (maybe mid 90's) with 4 wheel disc brakes, and older crap cars that always seem to have the 4 wheel disc brakes. based on this you would think since i have a newer sports car it would have 4 wheel disc brakes???

[6birds]

My 97 also had the drum/disc set up. I believe four wheel disc became standard in 98. Big difference from drum/disc to disc/disc. Much better stopping. It's expensive to upgrade, and you probably don't really need it unless you autocross or something like that.

[Takumi Fujiwara]

I have standard 4 wheel ABS disc brakes. 1997- Firebird - my friend had a camaro 1997 v6 as well, Front disc rear drum... Its just a package.

[ April 26, 2003: Message edited by: Takumi Fujiwara ]</p>

[hockeyman]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mcG:
my firebird's front wheels have the disc brakes, but the rear wheels have the drum brakes. why is this? it's a 97. i see old a$$ hondas (maybe mid 90's) with 4 wheel disc brakes, and older crap cars that always seem to have the 4 wheel disc brakes. based on this you would think since i have a newer sports car it would have 4 wheel disc brakes???<hr></blockquote>

Don't know exactly where you live in NJ, but if you don't live too far from Bristol PA, you may want to contact Contemporary Corvette at 215) 781-0202, and here is where they are located: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...submit=Get+Map
He sells the posi-disk rear for our f-bods at a great price.

-Marc

[Wicked 3800 V6]

V6 before 98 w/o Y87 == drums
Anything else (V8 93-02, v6 w/ Y87) have 4-wheel disc.
TECH ARCHIVE! All of this is severely and heavily documented in there
-Rob

[CamaroRob97]

i converted cost me 200 bucks

[StudlyCamaro]

i got my rear disk brakes for 50$, look around, its not hard to find LT1 rear brakes for cheap

[ShortyV6]

200 Dollars? I'd love to swap for a price like that...

Also with that place in Bristol...you said cheap but about how cheap would an entire new rear cost from them? I figured it would be better to have a ballpark figure before calling.

Mark

[12secondv6]

I had drums on my old rear.
I bought a V8 rear w/ disc's, v8 rear sway bar, and lsd for $250

[TheV6Bird]

Has anyone felt a big difference in having rear disc brakes?

I may not like my rear drums that much....but they don't give off the dust my front discs do, and I kind of like that [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]