Brakes

Brake Parts

Stock brakes are effective at stopping your vehicle, once! If repeated stopping, or stopping from high speeds is your thing, you need to upgrade your brakes. Stock brakes are 11" front with single piston Iron caliper. The rear uses 11" drums.

Upgrades to your stock brakes

The stock brakes are adequate to stop the car under "normal" driving conditions, but don't expect them to hold up when pushed without a bit of an upgrade. We offer performance pads, rotors, and a direct fit 2 piston caliper made of aluminum. These parts will transform your stock brakes from a "6" to a good "7.5" on a scale of 10.

braided steel hoses (2 front) $70

Rear braided hose (w/ tee) $35

2 piston direct fit Calipers $165 ea

For pads selection see Hawk or EBC pads below!

Budget big brakes

Do it your-self C5 Style Big Brake Kit

Build your own Big Brake Kit will include:

*Laser Cut C5 Brake Caliper brackets   $55
***We now have brackets for 98-2002 camaro calipers to use with the C5 kit.

*Custom Machined hubs to adapt C5 rotors $145  (Can be used with ALL 2nd gen and B body spindles, does not include bearings.)

*Braided steel conversion Brake Lines $70   front only- rear add $35

*Bearings and dust seals $65 (must specify which outer bearing YOUR spindle uses, either .750" or .850") We use quality parts

Complete Conversion Kit $309    save $$$$(includes above parts to convert your 2nd gen F-body or B-body to C5 Corvette Brakes. Does not include Calipers and abutement brackets, rotors, or pads, which YOU can purchase from ANYWHERE, we provide the custom conversion parts only. Kit includes Quality bearings, and grade 8 hardware. Requires spindle modification, which can be performend by you, or we can modify your spindles for $80 pair, plus shipping. Instructions included with kit.

**Kit will not effect track width, conversion hubs come with metric 12mm lug studs installed, which may require longer studs to fit some wheels. Hubs come with set 34 bearing race installed, if using with 70-79 style spindles with .75" outer bearing, race and bearing must be changed to set 2 style.

Kit add ons

Rotors-

Standard Plain rotors $49 each
Economy drilled and slotted rotors $65 each **Not for track use
EBC Dimpled and slotted rotors $135 each- **OK fro track use

Pads-

OE performance style $49 set
Hawk HP Plus $130 track/street
EBC Yellowstuff $145 Track/street- also very clean on wheels! Best choice!

Budget Rear Disc Kits-

Our budget rear disc brake kits are designed to be direct conversions from drums to disc on stock rear 10/12 bolt rears. They feature 11" rotors, and have a integral parking brake. They include rotors, backing plates, parking brake caliper, rubber flex hoses, and parking brake cables.

Rear kit $419 standard

Rear Kit $519 deluxe ****Includes drilled and slotted rotors, and either red or black powdercoated
calipers***

Rear kit $649 performance
this kit feature 12" drilled and slotted rotors, braided lines, black or red calipers

Braided Brake line Kits-

Our braided brake hoses come in several options to fit your calipers. All hoses come with crush washers, retaining clips, banjo bolts, and AN fittings where applicable, so you can bolt them on and go. Our lines are made with Aeroquip crimp fittings and hose with a clear protective sleeve. Our Hoses are D.O.T. approved by the manufacturer to meet safety inspection requirements on some applications***, and will out perform and outlast rubber lines. ***New C5 conversion lines are NOT D.O.T. approved.
Front- stock Calipers- $70 pr.
Front- C5 calipers- $70 pr
Front- Wilwood/ AN $70 pr.

Rear center brake line $39
Rear- flex line to calipers $70 pr.

3 Piece kit- any front & rear center line $99 ***Save $10***

Rear big brake kits available

Your rear brakes are as important as the front, and we now have a matching rear kit that has a parking brake assembly. Specs are 12.19" rotor and 4 piston caliper

Wilwood dynalite rear kit $675 (shown in photo with optional drilled and slotted rotor)

Drilled and slotted rotor Add $100

Parking brake cable kit Add $125

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Hawk pads are the perfect upgrade for stock brakes, C5 conversions, and our big brake kits. We offer 2 levels of performance. The HPS is a street pad that will survive the abuse of autocross or infrequent track use, with low dust and noise. The HP Plus is an aggressive track pad that will work under extreme conditions and abuse, which can be used on the street, but will be dusty and squeal.

HPS Street/track Pads
$53- 70-81 calipers On Sale
$112- C5/C6 calipers

HP Plus- track pads
$75- 70-81 calipers
$130- C5/C6 calipers

**We can get matching rear fitment pads also

EBC Yellow Stuff pads are are great pad for a car that is going to see some track or autocross use, but gets driven on the street. These pads do not make dust or squeal, and work well when cold. These are definitely worth the money!
Yellow Stuff Pads

$115- 70-81 Calipers
$145- C5/C6 Calipers

**We can get matching rear fitment pads also

New Power Brake Booster

We offer new boosters at re-built prices. Our units are manufactured to replace your stock booster, and come in correct finish. We always recommend power brakes on cars that see almost all street driving. We also have stock replacement master cylinders, stay away from cheap rebuilt parts store units!

11" Booster $159 NEW direct replacement

disc/drum Master cylinder $65 new

disc/disc master cylinders $65 new

Conversion kit, icludes booster, master, prop valve, and lines. $379- ALL new parts!

Dual Master Cylinder With Balance Bar

If you are serious about track performance, this is what you need. By eliminating your power booster, you can add feel and control to your braking. This set up uses separate master cylinders for front and rear, so the pressure can be matched to Each circuit individually and correctly. The integral balance bar is used to adjust the mechanical force or "bias" to the master cylinders. No proportioning valve to waste precious brake pressure. This allows inputed force to be moved from one master directly to the other. This mounts directly to firewall and uses stock manual brake push rod (not included). Reduces weight by over 25 pounds over stock power unit. Call before ordering to determine what master cylinder sizes will work with your application

Dual master cylinder with balance bar $399

Wilwood Master Cylinder

Wilwoods master cylinder is a bolt on upgrade over stock, weighs 1/4 the weight! Looks much nicer, and comes in 7/8", 1", and 1.25" bores to work with manual and power brake set ups, call for your application. Comes in natural silver or all black.

Master Cylinder $250

C5 brake set up VS. Stock

As you can see the difference is amazing. Rotor is 13" x 1.25", while the stock is 11" x 1". Even though the rotor is MUCH larger, the weight of the C5 set up as installed is approx 1 pound lighter.

The Test Results Are In- We tested them for YOU

The Tests are in!!!!!!

For many years I used the 12" kit with Wilwood stock style calipers, race type pads, and power assist booster. Due to poor "feel" on the track I went to larger rotors and dual piston calipers and converted to manual brakes. The feel was much better but I lost a lot of brake torque at the wheels and the car was very difficult to stop. I have since added the dual master cylinder set up. I was able to use a smaller bore master cylinder front and rear than I could with a traditional "tandum" unit. As a result I was able to increase brake torque by approx 24% at the wheels. I use this calculator as a tool to calculate changes in brake force to see how components affect performance.

http://www.jakelatham.com/radical/info/brake_calculators.shtml

You'd be suprised how little many of those so called "big brake" kits increase your brake force. Here is how the braking performance of our car has been changed by these kits

Stock power brakes cheapo pads                                                           60-0mph    150 feet

12" upgrade, Power, Wilwood single calipers, Hawk HP Plus pads                  60-0mph     134 feet    (tires were limiting factor, easily locked)

13" with dual calipers, manual dual masters, EBC Yellow pads,                       60-0mph      126 feet     (brake control very good)

For a street driven car, I always recomend Power Boosted brakes. For a car that sees more track than street I would recomend a manual brake set up, power brakes tend to give the brakes a "numb" feel. this can cause you to over brake, resulting in poor cornering and overheated brakes!

Brake performance is very important on the street as well as the track, my kits are just suggestions and offer you an idea of what you may be able to obtain. There are many factors which may affect the performace achieved by any of these systems. If you have any questions please call or Email.