Rear discs vs drums

[Silver R/T]

I know on my Charger rear drums are adjusted well and car won't drive if parking brake is engaged. However we took a trip up in the mountain years ago and coming down mountain my drums overheated (back ones actually started smoking) and I had to stop a bit to let them cool. I could've lost brakes and just rolled off of mountain-pretty dangerous situation. Even when normally driving car it takes great effort to stop it (partially being that it doesn't have power booster)

[Musicman]

Mountains... 2 words... Engine Braking 

[six-tee-nine]

Drums are like carbs, a thing of the past. And even the most modern rigs have disc brakes now.

They also have 18-20" rims to accomidate a rotor large enough to stop a frigg'n 3500 lb car.
THANKS FOR THAT BY THE WAY!

And whoever tries to tell you that drums brake better than discs needs to stop smoking crack.

Anyone who says disc's are better should take a class in basic Physics or Hydraulics... Or talk to a trucker

Discs brakes are alot easier to maintain (dont do jack to them untill the pads are worn, change the pads, clean the sliding surface of the pads and stay of it till they are worn again).

Amen to that... although I have cursed at more than one set of disc's as well. They're not all peaches and cream.

True they can also be a pain in the a** when seized bolts come into play.


I think that the fact that you see more discs on 4 wheels is just a matter of cost. Car manufacturers take a disc set of a smaller model and just put them in the rear. and they dont need several drum setups.
On the other hand they also do it to shaft their customers. Rear discs hardly need service where's drums need cleaning and adjusting from time to time.
So they can charge you as much as they used to on your old drum brake car and actually do less to it

[Cooter]

REAR disc brakes are like Fuel Injection when it comes to money spent to acomplish the same job.. some will pay the cost for the "Wow" factor of appearing to "Need" rear disc brakes. On the front however, the swap on most of these type cars is so easy, drums lose hands down.

On the rear however, it cost WAY the hell up there compared to the stock drum set up. Really? I doubt anyone on here is ready to scratch up that shiney, new paint job trying to become the next Road Racing prodigy.
So, do I think F.I. and Rear discs are worth the extra Coin? Nope. Not needed in my instance, but I can certainly see why the Wow factor chasers would.

[tan top]

yeah drilled drums  don't hear about it now , but like was mentioned a old trick ,  
was going to look into getting another set of drums & drilling them years back at the sime time i was going to fit a power booster , but never bothered !! good idea to count sink the holes in the inside a tiny bit  too  

[BigBlockSam]

i'm putting Discs on the back off my daytona . mostly for looks true the big rims . the car stops great with 11 inch drums on the rear and discs up front that it has now