1LE brakes upgrade... help needed

[Synner]

ctsv but if you can get sub 1k for the ZL1 too then by all means...

[speedmon]

Go with the Wilwood kit.....by the time you buy everything (including changing the BS silver color) for the CTS-V kit you're gonna be pretty close in cost but nowhere close in quality. At the end of the day...the CTS-V kit is a "passenger car" caliper and rotor.....and the Wilwood components are "race spec". Forged caliper with SS pistons.

You would have to compare "off the shelf" prices....not hodgepodge, hunt it down peice by peice....which is even more if you account for your time.

Paces CTS-V kit = $1400+pads+color change=$1950.
Wilwoods W6A kit = $1900 shipped from C5 vendor. You can get a better price cuz you live in Oxnard...which is only 1 hour from Camarillo where Wilwoods are born.

[Lio Martinez]

Originally Posted by speedmon

Go with the Wilwood kit.....by the time you buy everything (including changing the BS silver color) for the CTS-V kit you're gonna be pretty close in cost but nowhere close in quality. At the end of the day...the CTS-V kit is a "passenger car" caliper and rotor.....and the Wilwood components are "race spec". Forged caliper with SS pistons.

You would have to compare "off the shelf" prices....not hodgepodge, hunt it down peice by peice....which is even more if you account for your time.

Paces CTS-V kit = $1400+pads+color change=$1950.
Wilwoods W6A kit = $1900 shipped from C5 vendor. You can get a better price cuz you live in Oxnard...which is only 1 hour from Camarillo where Wilwoods are born.

What do u mean by Wilwood W6A kit $1900? And by shipped from.a C5 vendor ? Do u mean that for$1900 I can get the wilwood brake kit ? Front and rear ? Who is this C5 vendor ?

[Synner]

Which would still leave you with different brand discolored calipers and probably no lines or pads. And you can find the parts for much less than 1400. Thats the whole point of the conversation.

[right to travel]

this will get you started on amazon but you will have to get the rest by doing more searches which amazon kinda does for you.
ctsv calipers http://www.amazon.com/ACDelco-172-25...sim_sbs_auto_8

[Synner]

Yellow! Who knew, that was my issue. Only had silver # thanks.

[right to travel]

[Lio Martinez]

Thanks for the tips Guys... But does anyone know if anybody here at the site sells wilwood brakes ?

[right to travel]

google is your frenemy

[tramtwo]

Originally Posted by Lio Martinez

Thanks for the tips Guys... But does anyone know if anybody here at the site sells wilwood brakes ?

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/ad_thesponsors.php

[Lio Martinez]

Originally Posted by tramtwo

http://www.camaro5.com/forums/ad_thesponsors.php

I checked the link but I coulnt find wilwood

[speedmon]

Xplosive Performance is a Wilwood Dealer
As is
R1 Concepts (recently)
as is
A&A Corvette in Oxnard (where you live)

The price for the Wilwood kit was in camparison to the Pace CTS-V kit....and is a complete front kit including pads.
http://wilwood.com/BrakeKits/BrakeKi...maro&option=SS (V-8) only.(OE. w/ Brembo Brakes)

Great find on the Amazon CTS-V Calipers! Thats is lowest price I've ever seen. I've been buying more auto stuff off Amazon.....the prices are the lowest....too bad they don't have the Wilwood 2010 Big Brake kit. They have other Wilwood Kits, just not for the 2010. Maybe we should call em and tell em to stock it.

[right to travel]

they had cheaper ones on there but its hard to get what u want to show up in searches sometimes another set i saw was going for 186 per caliper 4 piston calipers go for as low as 90 per caliper

[tramtwo]

Originally Posted by Lio Martinez

I checked the link but I coulnt find wilwood

I'd start a thread here the brake sponsors are sure to see it.

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