drums

storm

storm

Member
SWEET !!!!!!!!!!! just had a customer in at work who swapped his 86 Iroc over to disc brakes, I asked how he liked it and he was real happy, he stated " way better than those unsafe aluminum drums I had) :idea: I ask you still have them ?? He says yeah actually they are in the back of the car I'm going to toss the stuff now that I'm sure the disc setup works, I will take them falls out of my mouth at 300 mph. Viola !!! free alloy drums. checked them and 100% roundness and they have never been turned :tup:
Just when I thought I hated work.
 
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2kwik4u

Resident slow guy
Re: drums

SWEEET

I have a buddy that swapped to aluminum drums awhile back. MAJOR MAJOR drop in weight.
 
Luke

Luke

Fish sticks SUCK !!!
Re: drums

:rock: nice find :tup: i use to get all kind of good takeoff shit at my old job in DC from vettes and f bodies.(pre-ty :tdown: ) now im in nc and dont have access to crap :rant:
 
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MikeRenz

not stock
Re: drums

aluminumdrum.jpg

:tup:
 
dgoodhue

dgoodhue

BuSTeD 4.3
Re: drums

16Sy16 said:
Can you buy them new still?
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I don't know if they are discontinued, but they were expensive when I looked into them 4 or 5 years ago. I want to $188 each. My friend gave me a set but they were junk.
 
myclone

myclone

Donating Member
Re: drums

dgoodhue said:
I don't know if they are discontinued, but they were expensive when I looked into them 4 or 5 years ago. I want to $188 each. My friend gave me a set but they were junk.
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You cant get them from GM anymore. You can order them but theyll ship you a reg set of steel drums.

I put a list up on this site a couple years ago stating which cars came with alum drums for the salvage yard scroungers out there. The same list can be found on the turbobuick boards as well.
 
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strada

Doghouse Member
Re: drums

i'm lucky because i got a set from a old monte carlo [81]today at the yard,but is too hard to find them,most of the cars still has the tires so you have to go one by one.i checked about a 100 cars.yes they're lighter than steel
 
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Sy+Ty

New member
Re: drums

You can find them on eGay from time to time... I've bought two sets now & IIRC, each was around $80-90 incl. shipping.

Re: weight savings, & again IIRC, they were only ~5 lbs lighter than stock per drum (linings are still steel ya know.) However, you are reducing "rotating mass" which for each lb. roughly = 7 lbs. of static weight. At least that's what I've read...

So assuming the above is accurate, simple arithmetic tells us that alum. drums could be saving you the equivalent of 35 lbs/wheel, or an aggregate weight savings of ~70 lbs! Worth the $100? Oh yeah...

Sy+Ty
Sy #1874
Ty #1989
 
Ty1642

Ty1642

Member
Re: drums

Just a question, and maybe something for others to look out for. This thread inspired me to find a set of aluminum drums. I got a pair at a local yard for $43, in real nice shape, and they don't look like they were ever machined.

However, when I went to put them on, they wouldn't seat all the way. The cooling fins are in a different pattern than the stock drums and were hitting the lip of the backing plate. I ended up cutting a notch on each fin, and now they fit. (Hopefully heat dissipation doesn't become a problem).

Are there a couple of styles of aluminum drums, or is everyone doing something different to get them to fit?
 
Robert Lone

Robert Lone

MUTANT
Re: drums

Dunno.

IIRC, mine have been modded in a similar way. They were on the truck when I bought it. I seem to remember the last bit of fin had been turned off in a lathe or something like that.
 
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