New rotors for stock discs

[68ls1wannabe]

My 68 camaro has the stock disc brake setup on it. I see that summit has Power Stop rotors for $130s a piece. Could I use these with some Wilwood dynalite dual piston brake calipers? Would you go with the forged or machined billet bodies? They are also around $130 a piece. Will these calipers work with the mounts for the stock single piston calipers or will I have to fab some up? Trying to get by with a cheap setup, anyone have experience with this?

[importkiller69ss]

why not do ls1....calipers and brakets can be had for 100 bucks for both...then the rotors and pads come from napa ect...got my rotors for 40 bucks apeice and pads for 60..then the 50 braket and you got bigger stopping power..for about the same price if not cheaper

[69Rathead]

Import. Do you have more info on this? A link perhaps? I think it's a great idea but I thought there were some issues with machining down the spindles and using additional spacers or something. If you can shed some light on it or share some info you have done to do it please let us know you may have a great mod.

[nancejd]

It requires some minor machining of the hubs to get the LS1 rotors to fit, but the spindles remain untouched. I needed a spacer to do mine, but a grade 8 washer ended up being the right thickness. It isn't much of a spacer.

[69Rathead]

Thanks Nance! Seems like I read something on this before and I had decided it was not much cheaper after all the parts were bought and running around was done than just buying a front conversion kit off Ebay for $500+shipping or so especially when you also invest your own time into it. To me if it does not save you more than $100 then it's not worth it if it takes you running around several days or weeks piecing it together and going to the machine shop etc. I'll look for a link around on the site for it. Maybe I need to re-read this conversion again as maybe it's easier and cheaper than I thought. Here is an example auction but of course these are not as good a system as the Ls1 brakes either:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/67-69-Camaro-Firebird-disc-brake-conversion-wheel-kit_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ34199QQitemZ4636355 734QQrdZ1

Here is also a full Wilwood high performance kit for a bit more:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Front-Brake-kit-Wilwood-140-2285-Camaro-Chevelle-Camaro_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ107061QQitemZ463 7100708QQrdZ1QQtcZphoto

[nancejd]

I think that the two chief advantages are that compared to a kit from some of the big manufacturer's it is much cheaper. I haven't seen anywhere where you can put the PBR calipers on a car for about $200, most of the kits which to me are basically the same thing are $1000, so to me that is a significant savings. Plus I like the idea of being able to stop at any parts house and pick up parts for my car. Who wants to wait for mail order brake pads?

[68ls1wannabe]

I've thought about the ls1 but I just don't know. I just thought I would be more of a bolt on deal with my first idea. any thoughts

[importkiller69ss]

mine was pretty bolt in...i just got a friend on this site to do the machine work wich is very easy...went to napa got some bolts and found some calipers and caliper braket painted them then got the cnc braket and got a kit from precision brakes with their stainless steel lines and everything bolted up nicely ones i got the right arms...

[importkiller69ss]

here are the links i have even know one one link is for the c4 the install is the same just different calipers and rotors
http://www.geocities.com/torkerscamaro/torker.html
http://www.pozziracing.com/12_corvette_brakes_on_fgen.htm

[69Rathead]

You guys made some good points looks like I'll take a closer look at it! Thanks for the input and Links!

[nancejd]

It is mostly a bolt on deal. If you have access to a lathe, it only takes a couple of minutes per hub to do the work that's needed. I would think that a machine shop wouldn't charge a whole lot to do it.

[importkiller69ss]

if you use drum spindles they will need a tad taken off the upper moutning hole ..i mean a little and if you have disc spindle you will need a spacer for it then just get some studs and i finally found the napa part number for them after a long time looking if any one need them

[68ls1wannabe]

I don't think I mentioned it before but my 68 has single piston calipers on the front discs. I thought that only 69's had single pistons. I can get my hands on some drum spindles off a nova. will they work? Can I just use my disc spindles. I just need enough brakes to stop. The car will never be road raced. Really in the dark here. Looking for the cheapest route. I would just buy new rotors and redo the single calipers but I've heard that they don't stop as well as a double caliper. Are'nt the stock discs 11 inch?

[68ls1wannabe]

if you have disc spindle you will need a spacer for it then just get some studs and i finally found the napa part number for them after a long time looking if any one need them
So with my stock disc spindles all I need is a spacer. Where can this spacer be found/bought? I guess I'm gonna go to the local parts house and order all the C4 stuff. 13" rotors and calipers. Hope this C4 doesn't go :drive2: ! Can anyone confirm on the spacer. I'm also planning on running C6 17" wheels with adapters. Hope all this stuff will bolt up.

[68ls1wannabe]

Will a drum hub fit on a disc spindle? If so I'm guessing that all I'll need to do is get some drum hubs and machine them down. :dunno: