Brake suggestion
Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 4:39 pm
Hello everybody,
Wondering what brake systems that most of you are running?(street and strip cars)
I have a street car that runs at 120mph at the end of the quarter mile right now.Planing to do enough work that maybe will end up close to 130mph.Right now I have the stock brake system
Disc front/drum rear,stock master and booster.my engine is only a mild 502.Planning to run a 540 or a 582 street motor pretty soon.I have pretty good brakes right now on the street,but at the track,I do notice at the end of the quarter,that I do not have enough vacuum to run the booster.The engine tries to stall at the end of the quarter,I have to apply light throttle to keep the engine running until I'm almost stopped.
I was thinking about Wilwood brakes because of the weight savings and the 4 piston calipers,and other goodies that is available.
Can I still run power brakes or should I go to manual?I never ran a car on the street with manual brakes.I've seen that electric vacuum pumps are available for low vacuum engines.Does it really work well or not?
Also,if I upgrade the braking system to a nice Wilwood setup.With the extra braking power,I may not need the power brakes anyway????????
I don't mine spending the coin,I just want to do it once.I know,sometimes it's hard to do that.lol....
The car is a Chevy Nova 1975
Thanks in advance
Wondering what brake systems that most of you are running?(street and strip cars)
I have a street car that runs at 120mph at the end of the quarter mile right now.Planing to do enough work that maybe will end up close to 130mph.Right now I have the stock brake system
Disc front/drum rear,stock master and booster.my engine is only a mild 502.Planning to run a 540 or a 582 street motor pretty soon.I have pretty good brakes right now on the street,but at the track,I do notice at the end of the quarter,that I do not have enough vacuum to run the booster.The engine tries to stall at the end of the quarter,I have to apply light throttle to keep the engine running until I'm almost stopped.
I was thinking about Wilwood brakes because of the weight savings and the 4 piston calipers,and other goodies that is available.
Can I still run power brakes or should I go to manual?I never ran a car on the street with manual brakes.I've seen that electric vacuum pumps are available for low vacuum engines.Does it really work well or not?
Also,if I upgrade the braking system to a nice Wilwood setup.With the extra braking power,I may not need the power brakes anyway????????
I don't mine spending the coin,I just want to do it once.I know,sometimes it's hard to do that.lol....
The car is a Chevy Nova 1975
Thanks in advance