14in (350mm) Brake Calipers

[CTX-SLPR]

Howdy,

I'm going to outgrow my current fixed 4 piston calipers when I upgrade to a 350mm rotor and 18in wheels here in the future. I'm scouting the possibilities and since my car is more Grand Touring than Pro Touring (less track focus) I'm wanting dust booted calipers. Here's my current list of candidates:

Gen 3 Viper Brembos (~$275 per used), radial mount so more work in the mounting
G37/370Z Akebono (~$275 per new), lug mount and unique pad
Wilwood FNSL4r (~$300 per new), radial mount and TCE comments they are dust booted

While I like the look of the Akebono's they really don't save much money and the pads are definitely more exclusive but I thought I'd throw them out there. Is there a reason to choose the used Viper Brembos over the new Wilwoods? Seems like the wheel fitment would be less of a gamble as well. Yes I know the narrows flex more than the regular Superlites.



Thanks,

[Motorcitydak]

Go with the Wilwood's, just down to the 2 piece design of them really which makes them more rigid. The Viper caliper is 1 piece cast aluminum then machined out bores. The wilwood is machined in 2 pieces then has strong steel bolts holding it together under a lot of compression making the caliper more rigid and giving you a firmer feeling brake pedal which will improve your confidence in the brake system. Plus they will be brand new so no concerns about bad dust boots, corroded pistons or bad seals and TONS of pad choices.

[CTX-SLPR]

That's pretty much the conclusion I'm coming to as well. Between the two with the radial mounting the bracketry fabrication is a wash. If I could find a set of used superlites it would be nice to take them apart and coat/paint them silver and take the 'wilwood' off and put some custom graphics on them.

There is another lug mounted candidate: Volvo S60R/V70R, shares the same 32mm/28mm rotor combo as I'm running front and rear so a full set (which things typically show up in on eBay) would not be a waste. How's pad availability for the 5G Camaro/1G CTS-V (or almost anything else with 4 piston OEM Brembos) calipers since they are the same?