N-Body: Easiest Way to Disc Brakes

[ItsVince725]

My 1995 Buick Skylark has rear drums. Now I know there has to be something out there that I could get rear discs from and bolt them up without an excessive amount of trouble (unless, of course, the drum brakes are welded on or something idiotic like that).

The question is, what would be the best source for a low-trouble rear disc brake swap?

[ItsVince725]

Does anyone know?

[stargaazer7467]

your rear axle is identical to 3rd gen cavaliers and sunfires, look into the neon rear brakes or the saturn rear disk conversions. I have newon disk on mine but the backing plated have to be machined to accept the GM hub bearing. search on j-body.org.

[stargaazer7467]

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=3&i=116955&t=92768&p=1

a wilwood rear setup seems to be in the works as well, also Baer makes a bolt on kit.

[Fireball]

Not sure if it works on your gen N-body but for me, I swapped my knuckle's (2001 Malibu) with Alero ones that had discs... it all bolted up just fine. Hardest part was swapping the parking brake.

[ItsVince725]

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.ph...55&t=92768&p=1

a wilwood rear setup seems to be in the works as well, also Baer makes a bolt on kit.

I thought the Baer kit had gone out of production.

[stargaazer7467]

Baer might be but theyre still lingering sometimes. No the knuckle swap wont work we have beam axles.



thats the axle with the neon brakes installed.

[ItsVince725]

That fits together a lot better than you'd think Chrysler parts bolted to GM parts would fit.

Impresive.

[stargaazer7467]

you have to grind down the hump on the top of the bearing flange to clear the barking brake housings, hooks directly to the stock E brake cables too. Just having the backing plates machined is the hardest part.

[ItsVince725]

Yeah, I would have to go find a machine shop...

That can be tough.