Is this easy to do? Just to swap the parts in the rear if I found 4 holed rotors/calipers from a quattro, turbo or later model type 44? And the most important question, would it even make that much of a difference in stopping power?

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You'd have to probably grab the whole axle assembly from a FWD type44. The drum cars have a slighly different mounting holes for various bits where the stub axles mount up (stub axles are the same, so is the panhard rod).

Doesn't matter. I have "hydraulics" in the CQ now...

My guess (that's all this is: a guess) is that in typical driving you wouldn't notice a difference. In most vehicles the front brakes do most of the stopping.

Discs' primary advantage is their superior fade resistance. You might see a difference in long descents, where discs' superior heat dissipating abilities would be an advantage. Unless I were likely to encounter such descents frequently, I wouldn't bother doing the swap.

Just my opinion.

The fact is the vast majority of the braking power is done by the front brakes.

Of course if you are going to track the car, then I'd recommend it. You'd want the increased fade resistance of rotors.

I would grab the proportioniong valve too, probably different on the drum/disc cars.

ah...forgot about that...Good idea Tom! :)