I lost 45 lbs. off mine swapping to Aerospace 4-piston from 11" x 2 1/2"
You should notice the weight difference.

100 lbs. off of your car?

I'm going another +.020" on the 340!

Wow, Bob. You never sit still.. Still waiting to get the pics off of my camera.. Way to go, Billy. I wonder how differnt it will effect the cal trac settings? Might have to weigh and re-set them up? Thanks for the pics.

Boy does that tittle leave the door wide open



I picked up quite a bit when I swapped to 4 wheel discs and a spool. I really didn't get it at the time till someone mentioned that around every 10#'s of rotational weight you take off is liking taking off 100#'s of dead weight.

Not sure how true that is but that's what I heard.

So do you have to get a smaller seat??? Oh wait it's not THAT rearend

Looks good Bill and I'm sure you will be quite happy on how it stops. Losing all that weight is instant go faster




Russ

That thing will fly with your new B.B. motor....errr

I'm hoping I can do the same to the Arrow some time also....it's such a slug a 2130#.. ...I'd love to knock the Dana drums and factory Mustang II stuff to the curb and lose a tenth..

Chad, it going to fly with out it too.

wo23coronet,cannot answer that, the green bearing has a retainer ring around it that look's like a circlip that retains it and the bracket's are made for that.

Hookd, it actually stopped quite well but it started to get the stock front rotors hot to the point they started to turn black in spot's and were starting to warp them from the heat and at the end they would rumble the car when you applied them, turning the disc's would of corrected the out of trueness but I was afraid of heat stress and eventually cracking or worse.

Butch,,,both, but I feel safer now.

Russ, as long as I can keep going with my diet I may have to add some padding to the seat in the car, lost about 12# so far.

Those big drums are HEAVY! I knocked almost 66# off the front of mine going from those big drums to an Aerospace setup. Total weight of the entire Aerospace kit in the box was 27lbs

That's an awesome weight savings with the added benefit of safety. I am switching from four wheel drums to a race Wilwood setup on my Dart Sport. Also will be going to Bob's frontend at the same time!

A big win/win/win move.
Big stopping safety margin.
100# is a big amount of weight reduction.
Rotational weight will probably double the ET reduction?

did a little more checking and weighted some front end stuff and came up with an additional saving's of approx 80# over the old 73-76 front end components, this includes brakes,spindles,lca and strut rod,,looks to be around 120# total weight off the car

what you going to use for strut rods and lca

Thats a BIG weight savings Bill

Dang Bill.......You keep it your gonna need a chute next