Ben, you have time to convert Salisbury drums with D1 calipers/pads but not to convert D1 front calipers/pads with 110 calipers/pads?
This is one of the easiest brake upgrades you can do on a D1. Don't need to touch the rotors if you don't want to.
The brake feeling is exactly how Nick (Tugela) described - softer pedal but the brakes grab very well.
There's also 110 rear caliper upgrade for a D1 - something I haven't done despite having parts forever - with main benefit being rear pads positively retained by pins, rather than diving uncontrollably into the rotor.
I assume we are talking the NAS 110, or Puma 110 rears being put onto a Disco front? or rear?
Time.... Well, put it this way. Normally, I have a 10 minute commute, so I leave at 6:30, get home at 3:30 if I'm lucky. I then have 3-4 hours of homework. So I save the weekends for car work, or projects needing to be done around the house.
But I've been gone for the past 10 out of 12 weekends. I leave Friday from work, get back home Sunday evenings. This happens again this weekend. And luckily, the Defender has performed flawlessly for these weekends away -- it is a 6 hour drive over the pass and back, and has already been at 10 degrees with snow at 5000 feet a few times... no heat in the cab sucks though.
The Defender, and the Disco are both daily commuters, so to do any of the work I need to do on either of those vehicles, I need to use the Series as my daily, but it can't be raining because the roof leaks too much, and there is not heat or defrost.
Therefore, if I need to swap the brake hoses on the Disco, I'm realistically looking at a
week of having the Disco sitting in the garage. It took me three days just to replace the master cylinder last month because I have to do the job overnight, or in intervals of 10-15 minutes per day.
In other words. I'm no good at carving out time to get the work done. Just doesn't happen right now. The Defender brake project has consisted of gathering parts over the past 6 months, nothing more. Once I get the heater/fan working in the Series, or figure out how to get the wheels off the Range Rover so I can replace the tires that are too old to drive on, I will start driving it to work, and park the Defender for the winter projects. (Wheels won't come off RRC because previous owner buggered up the lugs so badly that the fancy silver caps spin on the lugs by hand... so frustrating.)
Yes, my life is a basketcase of Rover goodness. I know, I know.