I am now looking for any help finding a bolt on front disc conversion kit. Y'all are the guru's. I look forward to any help you can offer. Thank you again.

 

https://classicoldsmobile.com/forums...sk-brakes.html

 

I got my disc conversion from ECI, it fit perfect, doesn't move the front wheels out, it has custom mounts the bolt to the stock spindles and have custom bearing hubs. They have master cylinders to match both long and short push rod power boosters. It's not a cheap kit or made of junk yard parts and you can tell. I like it.

 

I'll just say that in 40 years of working on these cars, I've never had an issue with the wheels being moved out. In any case, I'm a big believer in factory engineering. There are no junkyard parts in the link I posted above, but the reality is that all you need from a donor car are the spindles, splash shields, and caliper brackets. I always get new rotors and calipers from the auto parts store, as well as a new M/C. For my 64 Vista, I got a mini-kit from Right Stuff, which includes the spindles, brackets, shields, and bolts. I also got a stainless line kit and caliper hoses from them. I bought a 67-style metering valve and short booster pin from Inline and I got a dual-bale M/C and residual pressure valve (this M/C did not have one) from a street rod vendor. Rotors, calipers, pads, and mounting hardware will come from NAPA.

As an engineer, I remain skeptical of aftermarket caliper brackets for sliding calipers that don't have the alignment ears used on the stock brackets. All automakers who use sliding calipers use some type of alignment feature that prevents the caliper from "cocking" on the rotor, which can cause uneven pad wear or vibration. The aftermarket brackets cut from flat plate don't have this feature.

Factory with the "ears":



Aftermarket flat plate:

 

The kits are just too inexpensive now to fart around looking at used parts, or buying some parts here and other parts there.

I did that when i converted mine a few years ago and wound up spending darn near what a kit from a reputable place was, and would have saved myself a lot of running around hassle for the little stuff.

Just get a full kit from one of the big vendors and be done with it.

Right Stuff : http://www.getdiscbrakes.com/
CPP : http://www.classicperform.com/

I have not seen those flat caliper brackets that joe posted(though i haven't looked in a while)- all the repops I'd seen are stamped just like the factory ones. I know thats what i have, they were only $20 from ebay. I definitely woundn't want to use the flat ones either.

There are cheaper kits & vendors- but the larger guys will support you if you have problems with a prop valve or a bad MC (it happens). I've had very good lucky with Right Stuff dealing with faulty prop valves. And I know someone who had a CPP MC go out after a year and they sent him a new one no questions asked. I doubt Pirate Jack is going to do that.

Just some thoughts.

 

This is just a question of what's your time worth. I agree that the one-stop-shopping is the easiest and fastest way to get what you need. In my case, buying the parts individually at Carlisle gets me the same setup for about $100 less - and that's still all brand new parts (most of them from Right Stuff). On the other hand, I've often spent more money that I needed to just to save time, so I understand that as well.

My comments were really on the non-stock kits, which is where you get the flat plate brackets, custom hubs and rotors, etc, etc.