Steele33

Im in the process of my ls1 swap and I have come to the conclusion that my factory 10 bolt is gonna have to go. My quesition is can I buy a dual bowl power master cylinder and block off one bowl and just run my C5 front brakes to get me by until i can afford an additional 1500 to drop on a rear end and brakes?
or possibly set up a proportioning valve and block off a port on that?

any help would be greatly appreciated Im just trying to avoid buying as many things twice as I can, in this case rear brakes...

Chris

Steele33

anyone?

brettd85

You CAN do that but I wouldn't if you are going to drive it. They make plugs.

Bowtie70SS

iTrader: (10)

Why can't you just hook it up to the rear brakes you have now? Have you ever drove something with only front brakes? I do not recommend it.

Steele33

they are stock drums and i don't even know if they still work. and i also have no brake lines run to the back right now.

No I haven't driven a car with only front brakes but i was assuming that because the front does most of the stopping anyway that it would be ok. I just thought the backend may be a little squirrely.
Is it really bad???

Tommy69z

iTrader: (4)

I wouldn't risk crashing my 68 with only front brakes...

johnson73801

iTrader: (3)

ideally your brakes should be 50/50 split for street driven.like everyone else i wouldnt risk it if i were going to drive it.

bczee

iTrader: (12)

just pick up a Disk/Drum master for now.. was your Camaro Drum/Drum ?.. find a use one if it is just going to be a short time..

35 years ago, on my 69 Camaro, I just swapped on a set of oem disk brake setup on with the original Drum/Drum master.. it worked ok, just not the greatest.. (don't ask why i did it. Let just say I was really young then)... but I would not recommend it, the recommendation is to do it right the 1st time. (now that I am 35 years smarter, I think, LOL)