C6 Brakes

[Rick D]

Just wanted to know if anyone has used the C5 or C6 front calipers for the rears?? I'm sure that the ones that match the front would be fine with what I'm going to use the car for but I have a line on 4 of the fronts so thought what the heck I would see what the brake gods thought. I will be using stock F body drum spindles with Kore adapters (may upgrade to ATS AFX spindles). I am going to call Tobin at Kore to see what he thinks. I want to have the same size rotors front and rear also. I want to machine off the Corvette logo and then have them powder coated or hard coated. Thoughts, ideas, tell me I'm crazy??

[robertjra]

I like it and Tobin is a smart dude i spoke to him last week he knows his stuff. I think the rears would lock up if you didn't have an adj. prop valve

[Skip Fix]

My wife's 2002 Avalanche 1/2 ton has a dual piston caliper on the rear form the factory.

[chuckd71]

I think kore3 sells the same pbr calipers but without the corvette logo. Might save you a step.

[monteboy84]

Even with 50/50 weight distribution you'll want smaller brakes in the rear. If you're getting a good price on the extra fronts, sell them and get some rears, the fronts are worth more anyway.

-matt

[gearbanger]

I dont think the front calipers would work with corvette rear rotors. There is not as much braking surface in the back and I think the front calipers would reach too far toward the center.

[Apogee]

You can put front calipers in the rear, however need to use front rotors as well which obviously negates the use of an OE style internal drum-in-hat parking brake. Aside from opening a can of worms with respect to your overall brake balance and performance, bolting them up isn't the hard part (it's actually quite easy)...it's getting them to perform well that is the challenging part. The only decent solution we've found to regain the system balance is to run dual master cylinders with a balance bar, allowing you to adjust the front and rear master cylinder bores separately from one another. The balance bar is more of a fine tuning device and should be used as such.

Regardless of how well you sort out the balance, you're always going to have more rotor and pad than you need in the rear of almost any theoretically possible application. This means that your rear brakes are going to run very cool for the most part which may introduce some noise/squeaking issues as a rusult of the rear brakes never really running at their optimal operating temperatures. Additional down sides to running fronts in the rear include heavier rotors, calipers, pads, etc. without any real added brake capacity benefit since it can't be exploited.

Tobin
KORE3