not much braking is done with the rear but they should be more then capable of helping stop this car. Heavy is what I call a stock GTO, I have removed rougly 400 pounds off the car between the chassis, engine,rear end, front suspension, grills, and battery. Im trying to cut weight as much as I can while keeping the cars body stock. my 66 hardtop lemans with a iron 400, weighed in at 3730 with me in it, bone stock. that is a complete iron motor and a half tank of gas(10 gallons which is rougly 70 pounds). these cars are not all together that heavy considering there size.

A fiberglass hood maybe fenders can shave off some weight.

Sorry for not being clear I wasn't worried about overall braking I was interested in the spot calipers you were using for an e-brake, and if someone had recommended those to you or what, since as I said I wanted to use them but they just looked too small to me for a full size car. Hence I was wondering if you had talked to Wilwood or anyone about using them as e-brake calipers.

well I tell you what, the e brake calipers on my xj12 are roughly the same size and they work great on the car. The jagaur is 3820 pounds with me and a half tank of gas which is 12 gallons (dual tanks). The spots im sure would have enough claminping power to hold the car on a steep hill. Im not even sure if Im going to run a E brake.

I do love the ones that use bigger brakes then needed or use the wrong pad compound and never got them hot enough to fully use them.Any updates on the car.

slowly coming along Biggest hold up is making bumper brakcets that fit the car. I also have to see if my old boss can take a look at my steering shaft and see if he approves of it. He builds race cars for a living so, I trust him.

We figured out a way to use the willwoods on a 1.250 rotor. We bought some extra spacers from Willwood and had the axle mount brackets made longer. I think we had to cut 1 spacer in half to get enough travel in the arm to clamp the rotor. Call Jeff at the shop if you're interested in how to make them work. www.schwartzperfomance.com

more pics

I think you have all seen my 64 style dash with the vintage air controller in it.
That is a real engine turn panel, not vinyl like original in 1964.
I copied the 64 dash because it looks better then the wood grain that came stock in 65.

That's really cool, I'm liking that. :cheers: