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Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 10, 2013, 6:23 am
by craigerf100
have any of you added a brake booster onto your 64? if so please tell me how you did, give me the details.
thanks

Re: Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 10, 2013, 6:32 am
by Shadow
Here's What I Used On My 64'. Its A 7" Dual Diaphragm From Performance Online With The Drum/Drum Setup.
http://www.performanceonline.com/1957-6 ... KIT-17990/
Re: Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 10, 2013, 8:50 am
by bird55
FYI, I put disc up front and a new dual MC and proportioning valve WITHOUT the booster. Works great without extra expense of a booster. IMHO.
Re: Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 10, 2013, 9:15 am
by cwindsor
I added the same one from the link above and used the Speedway disc kit... They had the best price shipped and worked like a charm.

Re: Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 10, 2013, 8:46 pm
by Greg D
I don't run a booster with my disc setup either, the positive, solid pedal feel is simply awesome!
If I get the 79 I am looking at that needs a booster I may just delete it.
You really don't need power with disc brakes.
Re: Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 11, 2013, 12:23 am
by craigerf100
k cool thanks guys. i noticed in that kit that the booster has an adjustable push rod that connects to the brake pedal. im gonna have to find a just a booster that has one. thanks again
Re: Attention all slick 64 owners!
Posted: August 12, 2013, 10:48 am
by graybeard
Greg D wrote:I don't run a booster with my disc setup either, the positive, solid pedal feel is simply awesome!
If I get the 79 I am looking at that needs a booster I may just delete it.
You really don't need power with disc brakes.
The opprotunity came up to buy a '67 and or a '68 OKLA Highway Patrol cruizer from a gentelman in OKC. The '67 was sweet, the '68 not so sweet. Thought about it a while, bought them both. Took the '68 home first, pulled the PI intake, replaced it with cast iron. Turned around sold it the next week, a few bucks a head of both of them. Earl Shived the doors & roof back white. Drove it for about a year, had a blast. Raced it at the Shelby meet drags in Tulsa.
As far as I could tell that '67 came with four piston Kelsey Hays disc, single resivoir fruit jar M.C. NO BOOSTER. If it had a proportioning valve I couldn't ever find it. The impression it left on me was the 428 would easily care it into the 125 MPH range and the brakes would stop it in a lot less time.
In the search to make everybody happy engineers have made a lot of cars way more complicated than they need to be.