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Old Mar 19, 2002 | 01:00 PM
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Car: 1991 S10 pickup 2700lbs
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new aluminum drums still ?

can we stil get new alum drums for our maros ? if so then who and how much ?

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Old Mar 19, 2002 | 08:20 PM
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No. Not here anyway. As far as I know Autozone had some of the last known access to them around this area. Maybe you can call your local parts stores and see if any of them have some hiding in a warehouse somewhere.
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Old Mar 19, 2002 | 09:33 PM
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uh oh.... thats just crappy.. hmm... i suppose ppl have to replace with the iron ones then..

wonder about these: http://www.expressautoparts.com/stor...tegory=BRAKAMS


http://www.partsamerica.com/SelectPa...cent=&MfrCode=

i ownder also about the windup performance loss by going to iron from aluminum, has anyone ever swapped from aluminum to iron and noticed anything different when driving after the swap ?

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Old Mar 20, 2002 | 05:14 PM
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Want to hear something weird? Seems in '82 (or '83, cant' remember), there was a different rear wheel cylinder for an iron-drum'd f-body and an aluminum drum'd f-body. I have no idea why, and it doesn't make sense, and http://www.expressautoparts.com could've been wrong- but it was weird to see that. Such wasn't true in later years (84-up).
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