brake setup

[craigs73]

well i need a break setup sometime in the future and wanted to see what you guys thought i would need. i need the best brake setup for the least amount of money i was thinking of going with corvette calipers or the ls calipers to let you guys know its for a 73nova thanks

[craigs73]

anyone want to help me out here

[Apogee]

What's your goal for your build? What size wheels do you intend to run? If you already have wheels, what are they? Is your Nova currently a drum/drum car or disc/drum? If drum/drum, you can reuse your front hubs with several kits that are available and not with others. Also, what are you plan with respect to the suspension? Obviously, any changes to the spindles and/or rear axle can impact brake choices.

You've got plenty of good options to choose between but I'm biased towards the Corvette based kits since they give the best bang-for-the-buck in my opinion. OE brakes are going to be the least expensive and perform fine for a street car...anything bigger is going to cost more.

There's plenty of people running C5/C6 stuff on their rides here and your Nova has the same brake options as the 67-69 F-bodies and 68-74 X-bodies. Do a little reading in the disc brake forum and you're sure to find more information than you'll probably know what to do with.

Tobin
KORE3

[Ishmael]

you could search "C5" and "LT1" here to get you started and decide if that's the way you want to go. Stock-type kits are the cheapest. You may only want discs on the front. A step up from that would be C5/C4 fronts with lt1 rears or baer serious streets. Up from there I have no idea about because I never thought of taking my car on the track. Tobin is right though; the first thing you need to do is decide what you want your car to do.

[craigs73]

well to start with its a drum/disc car. i have the g-bar for the rear the car is going to be mostly driven on the street with the occasional track time when i can.i have 17's already for the car they are TTII's.i was looking at the corvette setups but not sure on what the prices are and what you get in the kits.i can't fork out the big money for brakes due to a low budget build and i work in a auto parts supplier. so can someone give me some ideas with the corvette setups ie.price and what the kit includes and what i would have to buy to get it to work. thanks for the responses guys

[Apogee]

Since you have TTII's, those have pretty well known fitment issues with C5/C6 kits and require significant wheel spacers to clear the face of the calipers. That said, Noel at Touring Classics offers a kit that uses a deeper offset (albeit narrower disc) 13" C4 HD rotor with the C5 calipers for the GM short-spindle application. His kits will require drum hubs though, which you don't have since your car is a disc/drum. I'd give you the ones from our '73/4 project Nova, however all but one of the bearing had spun their races making them junk.

If you don't need a parking brake, you can get into a rear C5/C6 kit for not a lot of cash and it will pair up with your fronts really well with respect to balance.

Tobin
KORE3

[craigs73]

i will eventually need a parking break when i go to a manual tranny