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New owner of a beautiful 4 door '63 Olds Super 88. I bought this car with air ride and 20s already on it. I'm in the process of cleaning up the previous owners mistakes and ugliness. I am curious if anyone has ever done a drum to disc conversion on these kind of cars? Thanks in advance.

 

Not sure what's available for the fronts now, at one time you had to send in a set of spindles for machining to adapt discs to them.

Scarebird has had a disc kit available for the 57-64 Olds and Pontiac rear axles for many years.

 

Contact Charlie Jones. Charlie has a build thread in the "Major Builds and Projects" section of this site and has the info you are looking for!

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Next the brake discs and calipers were installed in front . Discs were checked for run-out ;









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Try thishttp://discbrakemike.com/, he has been doing conversion for years... Tedd

 

Most kits for this conversion will leave you wishing that you'd just done a good overhaul on the drum system.

 

That's what I would do is go through the drum brakes completely and they do work very well.

 

Scarebird is going out of business, and doesn't list a kit for 63 thru 68 Olds anymore.
Scarebird Classic Brakes LLC

 

Besides, the name "Scarebird" doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in their product.