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Thread: G-body Brake Options
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10-24-2013 #1
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G-body Brake Options
New here and need help. Besides Wilwood and Baer, what are my big brake options? I have 18s with pretty good clearance. Has anyone retrofitted 2010 Camaro SS or CTS-V brakes? If so, do I need spindles? What else is required?
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10-24-2013 #2
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So far the best and easiest Bolt-On brake system is BAER brakes! They perform fantastic, easy bolt-on installation and their support is great too... Hard to beat!
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10-24-2013 #3
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Do a google search & you will find more affordable options, but they will require a little more work . The 98 to 02 Camaro brakes are one option , referred to as ls1 brakes, though v-6 cars have same. The c-5 & c-6 vette brakes are another common option , using retrofit brackets such as from Kore 3. Blazer brakes are one of the cheaper upgrades.
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I did ls1 brake swap on my gn front and rear
10-24-2013 #5
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Swap over too the Blazer 2wd 98-up spindles, this give a dual piston caliper, I have also helped a guy swap in , I believe, it was a Corvette rotor that had larger diameter but he refinished it to Blazer thickness (generally the min thickness is to allow full pad wear and not pop a piston out) and then he mounted the stock calipers farther away from hub. Worked great.
Biggest thing about ZQ8 spindles are larger rotors and dual piston calipers are hardier than older.
C5/C6 brakes allow for just about ANY combo and you can eventually upgrade to take off Vette race parts.
But unless you hit road courses and autocross every week and all, Vette brakes by far would be MY choice.
Main reason is IF you break you CAN order from most parts stores if not source from GM dealers.
And CTS-V is basically Vette in fancy clothes.Lee Abel
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10-25-2013 #6
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Yeah, I really wanted to do a factory GM brake, but a fixed 4 or 6-piston caliper. With the C5 spindles that limits me to just the C6 Z brakes, which I'm not a huge fan of (but doable), since I can't afford carbon ZR1 brakes. I was wondering if the ZQ8 spindles would work with fifth-gen brakes, since you can put fifth-gen brakes on fourth-gens. And if so, which rotors to use...
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