With any project, making sure you have all of the parts before you start is a good idea. Here is our kit from Stainless Steel Brakes for the C-monster, complete with everything but hand tools and elbow grease.
Let’s face it, they may cumbersome, they may have the road feel of a Moon Pie on a sunny day, and they may require a large quantity of black gold to make it down the road, but big ’ol American-made C-Bodies are just plain cool. You can get in them, relax, and drive for hours in comfort. They sport most of Highland Park’s biggest power plants, yet to the insurance companies, it’s just a luxury car (just don’t let ’em in on the 14-71 blower you just installed). The term “land barge” is aptly applied to just about any of the musclecar-era C-Bodies.
The problem with them is this: You go cruisin’ to your local hot spot in your 440 Magnum-equipped Polara, and some punk kid pulls along side of you at the stoplight in a worked import that his parents bought for him. With RB power at your toe tips, you know you can take him…the light turns green, and instantly the kid goes up in a cloud of smoke. You, on the other hand, just kinda move forward quickly in the Mopar-yacht, half laughing at the kid. Then, out of the blue, another car pulls out of a side street into your lane. With four tons of Detroit iron on the line, you push on the brake pedal hard and pray even harder that you stop. Let’s face it, drum brakes essentially work, but in the real world of today’s hurry-up-and-wait pace of life, an upgrade is a necessity, especially since the parts now exist to do the conversion easily.
Stainless Steel Brakes has been making quality brake parts for the aftermarket industry for years, and with their help, we decided to upgrade a C-monster for stopping.
Corvette Fever's tech guy Andy Bolig provided his 383-powered ’66 Monoco for the project, proving that not all Chevy guys are useless. The overall installation of the Stainless Steel Brakes’ disc-conversion kit was basically a bolt-on project. Just remember that you may want to check on the stainless flex-line, and a banjo-type fitting at the spindle makes the job a little nicer. Also, you will lose your lefthand threads since the rotors are all set up for right-hand lug nuts.
