Rear Disk Brake Conversion Results, To all who have done it... Options

[UTSlickVic]

One of the last "major" things I want to do to my Celica is covert the rear drums to disks. I have been sitting on this for awhile and it seems the longer I wait the more I dont want to do it. Honestly, I want to do it more for looks than anything. Plus its really going to take me two weekends(two Saturdays) to do it- 1) I have to go to the junk yard to pull off the correct parts, 2) then I have to install them.

My question is: Is it really worth the effort (besides looks)? It the braking power that much more different? Should I expect more headaches after the conversion? - meaning, the things I intalled falling apart, or maybe other things like bosster/master cylinder giving out?


Someone just kick me in the ass and tell me to do it

Thanks

[creamed_corn]

In terms of performance I doubt this is a worthwhile thing to do, since most of your brake bias is up front and drums are capable of stopping harder anyhow. Discs just dissipate heat better and hence are more resistant to fade in agressive driving conditions. I doubt most people on here are driving their cars hard enough for this to be beneficial. If you really wanna stop shorter then clean out your trunk.

But if you're doing if for aesthetics... well people spend money on more ridiculous things that don't do anything. Go for it.