Rear disc brakes on a 65 galaxie

Since I am going to put 77-9 t-bird front discs on my 65 I am thinking about putting discs on the rear too,is there anyone running rear discs on their galaxies. I know mid 70s lincolns had them but the bolt pattern is bigger and there was a granada sized lincoln that did too but those rearends are expensive if they can be found so is there any reasonably priced kits out there.
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The Granada/Versailles is too narrow, the big Lincoln is too wide. You can do a cheap Stock Car style disc kit, but it requires welding, and you will not have a parking brake. I have put discs on the back of all kinds of cars, and the rear discs are not very much of an improvement, if at all over good re-done drums. Unless you are going to do some road racing, or if you do alot of mountain road driving, I would go with the 12" Lincoln front brakes with a booster, and rebuild the rear drums. I have installed the big GM caliper with the 12" rotors on a few Galaxies, and it does stop. The GM caliper has a bigger piston than the T-bird/Torino stuff.
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i have a mustang and ford magazine that says 84 thru 88 lincoln mark 8's rear disc go on older 9 inch rears easily, u might wanna try that

F15,

This is kind of a general brake question since you've done a lot of disc brake swaps. In your opinion, which front disc setup do you consider more efficient ...the T-Bird spindles equipped with the 12" '74-up Galaxie rotors or your own setup with the GM calipers that you showed us a few months back? I know that you've considered marketing yours as a kit and I'm not asking you to give away your setup. But I can build something similar and am just wondering which way to go. As you know, I'm planning on doing some corner carvin' with my '64.

Thanks,

Jan

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On 2004-10-23 22:26, etp20 wrote:
i have a mustang and ford magazine that says 84 thru 88 lincoln mark 8's rear disc go on older 9 inch rears easily, u might wanna try that
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I think you mean Lincoln Mark VII as the Mark VIII didn't come out until '93....[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img] I'm with F15 as I don't consider factory front and rear discs enough of an improvment over a front disc-rear drum setup to offset the extra work of installing rear discs on a Galaxie. I own both a '93 Crown Vic and an '88 Lincoln Mark VII with rear discs and neither stop perceptibly better than my '79 T-Bird with drums on the back. I've hammered the T-Bird pretty hard through the turns and I can't 'feel' any brake fade in the back, either.

Just my .02 worth,

Jan

I have done it both ways with the GM calipers, meaning GM calipers with the stock '60-'64 Galaxie spindles and stock car rotors and hats and a fabbed caliper bracket, and GM calipers using the T-bird style spindle with the 12" Ford rotors and my own fabbed brackets. Either way I like the GM caliper because it is a floating design. I would do the latter style as it would save you some $, because you can find the 12" rotors in the junkyard with some luck.
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I am currently working on a 65 and putting rear disc's from the lincoln mark VII. I have owned cars with both rear disc and rear drums and can say without a dought that the rear disc brake cars did stop considerably better than the drum cars. For the mark VII swap, here is a link to a guy who sells the brakets($100) and has some info on what cars to get the parts from. If you use the Mark VII stuff you get the benefit of having a parking brake. the kit is a bolt on and uses factory (FORD) parts and shares the 5X4.5" bolt pattern. You may have to cut and paste for the link to work.

http://www.ultrastang.com/Ultrainfo.asp?Page_ID=11

Thanks, F15. Using the GM caliper with the 12" Ford rotor is an option I hadn't thought about.

Jan