The brakes work great! It's nice to not have to adjust my braking habits between vehicles. I just put my heel on the floor and gently push the pedal with my toe.
All we did was change out the front brakes to disk, completely restore the rear brakes and installed a power boost dual master cylinder and proportioning valve. PCC markets the whole package as a kit so everything came from the same vendor. More on that later.
There was absolutely no way the stock 15-inch wheels would clear the calipers so I went with the CPP suggestion and bought four new wheels especially made for the CPP disks from a company named Wheelsmith. They are called "smoothie" and look pretty stock (my goal) especially because Wheelsmith also sells a baby moons that look just like stock hubcaps right down to the embossed CHEVROLET script and red lettering. The wheels have 3 "bumps" on the rim that the caps snap down on, and are beautifully made and spun as true as I could have wished. They do not touch the calipers... we removed one and there was no sign of contact with anything... the paint was untouched.
Like I said, we're going to get it off the ground and run the drive train to check to see if it's coming from there.
My mechanic is an ASE Master Technician with 33 years experience building race cars and street rods with a completely equipped shop so we can rule out any amateur blunders.
Other than that, don't know what else there is to say.
Last edited by Czechman; 11/01/2007 3:44 AM.
