Rear drums to Disc brakes

[inetdesh]

Hello there,

I'm wondering how much it would cost to change the rear drum to disc brakes. Your input is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Desh

[Jeff Lange]

If you were doing the factory setup, you need at the least from a Matrix with disc brakes:

Backing plates, shoes, springs, adjusters, cables and brackets for the e-brake.
Rotors, calipers, pads, shims and hardware for the disc brakes.
Rear brake hoses from the hardlines to the calipers.
Maybe, possibly the rear torsion beam, they're different part numbers between models with discs and without, but I don't know if you can make it work without it.

I think that about covers it for parts. If you bought these parts new I would expect retail price to be about $1800.

Jeff

[Smar969905]

look for a new brake kit, but make sure it is all new components, not something that utilizes something from the stock setup. replace the front brakes with that setup and put the old front brakes on the rear, then throw the drums in the garbage or take them to a recycle yard and see if you can get $5 for it all.

sorry...not much help on pricing, but that is my suggestion with brakes.

[Jeff Lange]

I highly doubt the front brakes will bolt onto the rear, especially considering the parking brake is a drum-in-disc type on the stock setup, and of course the front calipers do not have the appropriate hardware to utilize a built-in caliper parking brake setup.

Your post didn't really help at all.

Jeff

[Smar969905]

then go find a corolla or matrix XRS and steal the rear brakes from that. the XRS has rear discs.

[Jeff Lange]

Indeed. Steal all the parts that I listed in my first post, you'll need them all.

Jeff

[bc toy]

or a celica gts

[kevintomb]

Much more than its worth...if you already spent several hundred dollars on the brakes you have...you will basically be throwing away everything from the rear drum brakes. Besides rear discs are not really any better for stopping power, since the fronts do like 85 percent of the stopping power anyways..youd be MUCH better off going to aftermarket FRONT pads or rotors etc, but even then for normal driving you wont see much difference....unless you make MANY high speed stops in a short amount of time, the stock brakes are very adequate on almost all cars nowadays. Its not the stopping distance that gets better so much with good brakes, but the fade resistance, which most never take advantage of.

[inetdesh]

Hello all,

Thank you for your response.

Thanks,
Desh