So this question is for the camaro guys (or anyone who knows). My little brother just got his first car which is a 96' Camaro RS. I'm thinking of doing some stuff to his car for Christmas just to help make an already nice car, really nice. One thing I had in mind was brakes. His car does have drums in the rear and they are pretty much non existent. You pretty much have to stand on the brake to get them to work. My question is, does anyone know if there is a way to convert the drums into disk brakes?

 

i did a quick search and found this on summit

http://www.summitracing.com/search/p...t/model/camaro

 

Does the car pull hard to one side or the other when braking?
Is the pedal extremely hard to push?

Remember the rear only does ~30% of total braking.

Check and make sure the wheel cylinders aren't frozen, same with caliper pistons.
Check the rear hardware also.

 

The pedal isn't necessarily hard to push it's just that when you do nothing happens lol. It could need front brakes as well. But I doubt the drums have ever been replaced in this thing. So I figured I would make it a little more modern by changing them to disk brakes. Which would be easier for him to change when ever he needs to change them.

 

If you are standing on the brakes to stop the car, check the fronts first. They wear faster and hard then the rears since they take most of the brunt of braking.

 

Another way to do it is to use a whole new rear-end to do the drum->disc swap. Which is a good time to change to the 3.42 posi rear too.

 

What rear end would we swap it out with? Would we just take a rear end from an SS or a z28 from the same gen, or a trans am from the same era?

 

I'd swap in new front pads first. People tend to buy cheap brake pads with a lifetime warranty from parts stores. Cheap and lifetime mean hard as heck so they don't wear out, they also don't stop the car. I prefer Wagner Thermoquiet pads. A set of R1concepts.com E-line drilled and slotted rotors would be a great addition.

 

the cheapest fix/solution is to replace the porportioning spring in the porporting valve. I did this to my son's 91 Z and now it stops! LOL!! apparently on these cars the spring gets weak. there are articles on thirdgen.org that explain this