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Originally Posted by SYC086
You'd be eating the aluminium. The only aftermarket kit I've seen that addresses the drum parking brake has a steel/iron/whatever liner pressed into the inside of the hat.
I'd personally be happy with a caliper kit so they visually match front to rear.
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Yes, as long as the natural brake bias doesn't shift too much to the front (A function of piston diameter, effective disk diameter and swept area/coefficient of friction) and the main benefits of the AP system are increased heat capacity and feel as opposed to vastly increased braking torque (Remember, you can only brake as hard as your tires can grip. I could lock up all 4 on my old Impreza with the dinky sliding calipers. It just didn't feel so great), then just making a bracket and caliper to fit the stock rear rotors would be perfect.
That said, I've seen pressed in liners as well and it seems to be a good enough solution as long as you're not using the e-brake rally style, and in that case you should really be using a hydraulic system anyway.
Nathan