Posted by Earl Pillow (IP: 208.234.174.130) on August 30, 2000 at 18:17:06:
Did anybody see last month's Mustang & Fast Ford (I think it was in that one)... they have a project Fairlane that they upgraded with front discs, but they went with a modern drum setup on the back transplanted from a late-model F-150 (very large drums). The reason they was that it would be used to tow a boat, and that the parking brake holds much better with drums than discs (to keep it from rolling down boat ramps). To me this seems like a pretty cool setup, but I'm not sure it's worth the trade-off in terms of braking power (and fade?) Any comments?