Hello everyone, I see there are a lot of people doing the drum to disc conversion, but I was wondering what is involved in adding a power booster to help my drum brakes?

Before everyone jumps on me, I have been reading a chevy book and it stated that there were cars that had power drum brakes made. Yes, I could easily spend $1000+ for the disc conversion, but sometimes you can't.

wow, no one knows or has done this...:clonk:

I have a 70 malibu which came with manual drum brakes.I found a nos dealer kit on ebay which came with everything needed to add power brakes.It came with the booster and hoses,fittings and the instructions. This was a kit the dealers used.I also found the dealer kit for power steering also.It didn't improve the performance of the brakes,but all I was looking for was using less foot power to stop.It works great.All you really need is the booster and vacuum hoses and fittings.I have an inline six and the hose runs to the exhast manifold.

I'd recommend stepping up to Praise Dyno Brake's drum kit. It will dramatically improve your stopping power, even with manual brakes.

www.praisedynobrake.com

Barbar...are you sure you didn't mean "intake" manifold?
I'm thinking the temp of the exhaust manifold might be a little ....uh......extreme...for vacuum hose.:)

...and probably doesn't produce much vacuum!!

The work to convert to power drums is not much. You will need the booster, master cylinder to match and some vacuum hose. With a bit of luck , the hydraulic lines from the master cylinder might work on the new set up. The brake pedal has two holes in it to connect with the pushrod to the booster/master cylinder. The lower one is for power brakes.

oops right intake manifold