Wheel fitment is a huge concern when doing a disc brake conversion. Will my stock wheels fit? What wheels do fit and what wheels don’t fit? These are all very good questions. In fact, we receive this question all of the time. The good news is we have a tool that can be used to answer these questions. 

So what is this tool? It is a very simple wheel fitment template that our R&D department has created that is application specific and available for our most popular kits. The template gives a cross section of the disc brake system that can be placed within the wheel to determine if adequate clearance is available. The use of it is very simple and if you’ll read a little further, we’ll walk you through it and give some pointers. 

On every vehicle, you should find brakes on the both the front and rear axles. Early on, that consisted of drums on the front and drums on the rear. Over time, that changed to disc brakes on the front and some vehicles going to disc on the rear while others stayed with the drum brake option. The reasons for continuing with rear drums can be quite vast but usually involved an engineering reason over most of our heads or a cost reason at the OEM level. In our world, we can usually throw out the cost reason and look at it strictly from an engineering or performance level. Disc brakes are simply going to perform better on your classic car.

Over the course of the next few months we are going to let you, the customers know a little bit more about us. In this new blog post series we will be taking one of our staff members and asking them a series of questions. These questions range from everyday questions to professional questions. We hope that along the way that not only you learn something new about our us a company but the types of hard working individuals who make it all possible.

Last month we revived our Ride of the Month contest. The Ride of the Month is a friendly submission contest where you the customer send us a picture of your ride for a chance to win a prize and to have your ride featured in a blog post and on our social media platforms.

The winner for the April 2019 Ride of the Month is Danny from West Virginia and his 1955 Ford Crown Victoria. This car means the world to Danny and comes complete with our Master Power Brakes Legend Series Front Disc Brake Conversion Kit. 

The vehicles made from the late 50's to early 70's are some of the best looking cars in American history. Some of our favorites of this era come from the Ford Motor Company. It must not be just us that thinks this since the kits we offer for this application are some of our best sellers. Therefore, we thought we would take a look at the Legend Series Disc Brake Conversion Kits that we offer for the 1957 -1972 Full-Size Fords.