ZZ4Blazer
03-07-2006, 10:21 AM
Heres the deal. I recently ditched my s-10 blazer, and now have a standard cab s-10. I have upgrade the brakes with 12" B-body spindles, 1LE camaro rotors, and bought the aluminum 2 piston quick change calipers from SSBC. Stock prop was ditched, and adjustable one was plumbed into rear line.
I had all of that on my blazer. I heard to use a B-body master for it as well, and did when I did the swap. Still was using stock rear drums. Master was from a late model impala SS I believe, with rear discs.
Pedal was very hard, only got about half of travel, and didn't work very well. Swapped back to my stock s-10 master, and was better than ever. Truck stopped hard, and was very impressed with the upgrade.
Now, I've got a newer truck, most of hte perfomance parts from my blazer are on it. Same front brake set up, same master/booster, but I upgrade my rear end to an 8.5" and added a set of 12" LS1 rear disc brakes.
It was 8-10 months between driving my blazer, and finishing this truck, but I don't think that the truck stops as well as the blazer did. I've got decent pedal feel, and it stops good, but I would have expected it to stop a little better than my blazer since this truck is ligher, and I've also added rear discs VS old drums.
On very hard panic style stops, I have gotten my rears to lock up. But haven't had my fronts yet. Im thinking that maybe Im not getting as good of pressure to my fronts like i was in my blazer because the rear discs are taking more. On my blazer, the fronts would pull my stiff lowered suspension down on hard braking. To me, it doesnt seem the fronts are working as well as they had been.
Maybe Im way off, maybe my set up is optimized and Im expecting too much. I still have the b-body master that I tried on my blazer at first, and was gonna try it again. This worth a shot? Or am I wasting my time with it? I was also gonna try and plumb the rear port on the master to the front brakes this time, instead of the front/front, rear/rear like I had it before.
Sorry for the novel. Any other suggestions?
I had all of that on my blazer. I heard to use a B-body master for it as well, and did when I did the swap. Still was using stock rear drums. Master was from a late model impala SS I believe, with rear discs.
Pedal was very hard, only got about half of travel, and didn't work very well. Swapped back to my stock s-10 master, and was better than ever. Truck stopped hard, and was very impressed with the upgrade.
Now, I've got a newer truck, most of hte perfomance parts from my blazer are on it. Same front brake set up, same master/booster, but I upgrade my rear end to an 8.5" and added a set of 12" LS1 rear disc brakes.
It was 8-10 months between driving my blazer, and finishing this truck, but I don't think that the truck stops as well as the blazer did. I've got decent pedal feel, and it stops good, but I would have expected it to stop a little better than my blazer since this truck is ligher, and I've also added rear discs VS old drums.
On very hard panic style stops, I have gotten my rears to lock up. But haven't had my fronts yet. Im thinking that maybe Im not getting as good of pressure to my fronts like i was in my blazer because the rear discs are taking more. On my blazer, the fronts would pull my stiff lowered suspension down on hard braking. To me, it doesnt seem the fronts are working as well as they had been.
Maybe Im way off, maybe my set up is optimized and Im expecting too much. I still have the b-body master that I tried on my blazer at first, and was gonna try it again. This worth a shot? Or am I wasting my time with it? I was also gonna try and plumb the rear port on the master to the front brakes this time, instead of the front/front, rear/rear like I had it before.
Sorry for the novel. Any other suggestions?