Installing vette brakes?
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George Blake
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Re: Installing vette brakes?
Get ahold of Chris from "CBR Performance". He sells a complete "kit" that will make your buddy's old hardware (rotors and calipers) work on the syty. You'll have to talk with him but you'll need at least a 17" wheel to clear the hardware.
Get ahold of Chris from "CBR Performance". He sells a complete "kit" that will make your buddy's old hardware (rotors and calipers) work on the syty. You'll have to talk with him but you'll need at least a 17" wheel to clear the hardware.
allwheeldriven
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Re: Installing vette brakes?
CBR has a great kit but use loc-tite to hold the bolts that hold the caliper brackets to the brake adapters. mine worked loose in less than 20 miles and now I'm waiting on a replacement spacer and bolt.
for the rear you can use LS1 backing plates to bolt the corvette rear calipers and rotors on but you will probably have to ditch the emergancy brake.
look at the z51 brake thread here
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?p=477645#post477645
Also,
the stock brake lines won't work for the rear brakes so order the earl's brake line parts listed in that thread.
It will take about 10-14 days to get all the brake line parts in since most places wont have all of them in stock.
Rear brakes are a little harder to install than the front.
the fronts took me about 2 hours from the time I took the wheels off.
the rears took me a day.
CBR has a great kit but use loc-tite to hold the bolts that hold the caliper brackets to the brake adapters. mine worked loose in less than 20 miles and now I'm waiting on a replacement spacer and bolt.
for the rear you can use LS1 backing plates to bolt the corvette rear calipers and rotors on but you will probably have to ditch the emergancy brake.
look at the z51 brake thread here
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?p=477645#post477645
Also,
the stock brake lines won't work for the rear brakes so order the earl's brake line parts listed in that thread.
It will take about 10-14 days to get all the brake line parts in since most places wont have all of them in stock.
Rear brakes are a little harder to install than the front.
the fronts took me about 2 hours from the time I took the wheels off.
the rears took me a day.