Big Brakes on a not-so-big Budget? YEP

Awesome right up! One question. If you purchased loaded calipers, why would you need to purchase another set of pads?

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I thought I was going to finish tonight. I ordered the wrong adapter fittings for the stock hard line. I have inverted flare, but it's bubble flare.
Parts on the way!
 
I'm finding the semi-loaded calipers at about $60 with a $75 core, ones without the Corvette wording on them. It would be easy to get away with throwing our original calipers in the box as cores.
 
Great timing for me, I was just looking at brake upgrade options yesterday.

These will go well with my vintage "Zack and Mac" control arms...

Count me in with whatever you come up with Zack.

Not sure that a parking brake is really important?
 
This is killing me waiting. It's a perfect fit on the lines I bought, based on the mock-up I did
 
Unfortunately I need my parking brake... I wonder if pre 04 F150 five lug rotors would be close?


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justbob said:
Unfortunately I need my parking brake... I wonder if pre 04 F150 five lug rotors would be close?


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Why can't you park that 6 speed in gear?
Just curious why you need your parking brake.
 
Zack said:
You have to make the brake line.




Nope
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Not quite seeing the value there Zack. You're at $100 without all of the adapters and only half the hoses. Seems to me you're short two hoses, three adapters, two banjos, two banjo bolts and four crush washers- you'd be north of $200 pretty quickly. And nowhere in there were any anchor brackets- those adapter have to fit into something.

And the combo of all that means five junctions: hardline to adapter, adapter to hose, hose to banjo, banjo to banjo bolt, banjo to caliper. That's a lot of things to have issues with.

No beef by me here, just saying I'm not following the math on this one. If you want to do a qty of them from me for your proposed 'kit' I'd be happy to help you.
 
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While this does seem to be a good DIY project, and one can build it over time, thus spreading the cost out over a period of time, I am a "I want it right now" kind of guy, and will just pay the freight for a kit.

I do think Todd is right, once all the nickle and dime things start adding up, the price will climb, but all in all, I think it is great for the guy who wants to fab some of his own parts and such.

For now I'll keep my Wilwood's, but if there is a better solution, I may be persuaded into trying something different....

Good work, to both of you guy's.
 
Brackets would be 9 more dollars.
This is for the front only. I can see if an aftermarket line will work in the caliper inlet. But remember, BAER modified the caliper with an additional hole so the stock line could be used
 
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