# Thinking of doing a disc conversion on the civic

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thinking-of-doing-a-disc-conversion-on-the-civic/39408
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [November 28, 2007, 11:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thinking-of-doing-a-disc-conversion-on-the-civic/39408 "2007-11-28T11:34:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 14

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thinking-of-doing-a-disc-conversion-on-the-civic/39408/14 "2007-11-28T12:10:22Z")

</div>

[quote=“rugsr,post:9,topic:39408"”]

disc stopping power \> drum stopping power

correct?

[/quote]

FALSE. Drums actually have more surface area and thus more stopping “power”, not to mention since they are using the outermost diameter as possible giving them better torque. Secondly on a FWD car rear braking power is insignificant anyways.

The only enemy of drums is heat, if you can overheat rear drums on a FWD car, on the street you have serious brake bias issues.

As far as track use, the top guys in FWD are putting cheap NAPAs on the rear AND setting rear bias to zero.

---

_[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thinking-of-doing-a-disc-conversion-on-the-civic/39408)._