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Tim
Dodge Dakota
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3/18/2002
18:37:14
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I have been reading about the trouble with the rear brakes on the dakota. I guess I may have avioded this problem when I converted to rear disc with only 20,000 miles. The brackets where from street rod mfg and the rest where from salvage yards. I used rear calipers from a 86 eldorado. The rotors where bought new from Dodge although now I would buy the slotted rotors. The proportioning spring was removed from the master cylinder. The abs works without any problems, and the stopping distance was greatly improved from a high speed stop. The whole system has been flawless, the truck now has 45,000 miles on it.
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pyrodak
Dodge Dakota
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3/18/2002
22:33:31
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hey tim,
how much did that conversion cost you roughly? They have a kit on speedtweeks, but I don't have the 1200 bucks to do it. But if you were able to do it on a moderate budget, I might think 'bout trying it. Any info would be cool.
Later,
Mark S.
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GlenC
GenIII
3/19/2002
12:09:34
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I dont know how good this system is, but www.truckperformance.com has a kit for dakotas, its only like $700 or something and doesnt require you to use bigger wheels. I THINK the speedtweaks ones do require a bigger wheels. But if i had my choice i'd go with the speedtweaks set up. But i dont have that much cash, and dont need to be putting 17" rims on my dak. :)
GlenC
'01, CC, SLT, 4.7, Auto, 3.55 LS
MBRP stainless dual rear exit catback.
Robert Shaw 180 T-Stat. Autolite 3923s
JBA Headers.
Kenne Bell supercharged.
Roadmaster active suspension.
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D
Dodge Dakota
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3/19/2002
12:21:38
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Glen C:
how's the Kenne bell so far? have you had
the truck dynoed? any 1/4 times?
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Tim
Dodge Dakota
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3/19/2002
22:13:20
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The swap cost me about $500 but I had to do a lot of the engineering myself. The parking brake had to be fabricated and the rotors had to be machined to fit the axles. Bleeding became problem because the bleeder is on the botom, which ment removing the caliper to bleed them. The caliper on the eldorado is only 10.5 inches and the dakota is 11.25 so the shoes had to be ground slightly to fit. You also must modify your distibution block to work with the disc brakes as disks need more volume to operate. Around town there is little difference but from a high speed stop they do make a big difference. Brake dust becomes a problem on all four wheels but I can deal with this. I don't understand the people down playing four wheel discs when without question discs are superior to drums. You don't see drums on a nascar vehicle do you? If I was to do it again I would use the system from SSB. Pepole doing a modification like this should be prepared to do some modifications as this is not just changing pads! Your rear brakes do more like 30% of your total brakeing and this may be even higher when you drop your vehicle more in the back than the front. I am sure all four wheels are used in stopping my vehicle which does have a 2/3 inch drop. After a 60 mile an hour fast stop all four rotors are hot. I am going to use a electronic thermometer and do some testing to see just how much hotter the fronts get compared to the back, this will tell me who is doing all the work as all four rotors are the same.
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