Mangosmoothie, rear brakes, wide 5 question?

I've been through your pictures a half-dozen times and have a question about the rear wide 5 setup you are using. I know there have been more than one set of brakes on the car as it has evolved, but can you provide some detail for how the rear wide 5's are set up? Are they T3 drums? If so, are you running short axles, or '68+ axles in the rear? What size wheel/tire are you using on the rear?

TIA

glad you are using my site.

the brake and suspension did evolve quite a bit, but i ended up in the rear with the following:

1967 wide 5 drums
1967 shoes
1967 hardware / wheel cylinder
stock 4 lug backing plate
stock 4 lug IRS bearings (1974 i think)
stock axle stub

cut 12mm off 4 lug drum at the nipple end to make a spacer (which you probably saw in my pictures). Many folks just use T3 drums and backing plates, or Thing drums, but they add track. with my wheel/body combo - i wanted to reduce track.

That is the brakes.

but i did change the rear trailing arms a lot too. starting with stock trailing arms, i narrowed them 1.3" on either side at the bearing housing. this required new narrowed axles. Type 3 IRS automatic's had one side that was narrower than the other due to an offset transaxle in the automatics. i bought two of the short ones. They fit fine (actually i made the trailing arms to fit the axles)

hope that helps.

Thanks, I really appreciate the help. As many times as I'd looked at the pics I honestly forgot it was an IRS chassis.