I have 20" chrome Foose Nitrous wheels. The valve stems are in the middle of the inside of the wheel. Does anyone have any iodeas on what to do with the brakes? I have a GMS turbo going on as I type this but I know I am gonna need more stopping power. What kind of options do I have?

Dave

 

http://www.blowbyracing.com/brakes.html

 

I have the 20" Nitrous as well. As far as I know there is nothing you can do except for better pads. It's not the valve stem that is the problem since you can get very short valve stems...it's the distance from the side of the caliper to the wheel. There is just NO room in there for any different setup. I know the Foose Stallions come with calipers stamped "Foose", but I am not sure if they are any different than the stock brakes except in apperance. You can email Unique Performance and ask them for any options.

 

I have AP Racing front and rear brake upgrade kits, and Black foose nitrous 20"s.... catch brakes are in boxes on the garage floor until I get new wheels.

Its not just the valve stem, look at your clearance on the calipers with the factory calipers, no imagine the caliper sitting 1.5"-2" back farther.....You end up using spacers, and I tried that, to get it to fit I ended up need about a 15mm spacer, which put the wheels hangingn out weird. I do not have a pic but it was bad.

Yes the valve stem is an issue and you can have a smaller one put on, I have actually seen flush mount ones on a few of my friends hot rods, not sure where he got them though. I do know he got all of his wheels through Newstalgia so he may have gotten the valve stems from them as well.

I am actually going to take the 20" foose's off my car and put them in the garage until spring of next year and I am going to see about getting a set of 19" wheels instead.

Dex,
Its nice to see someone who dose not buy into all of the negative hype about a remote mount turbo kit, I had planned on going that route but they could not find a nice way to mount my turbos and run the pi[ing with the side pipes. Instead I ended up getting the Turbonetics kit.

 

Thanks mattblasi

People talk bad about it because its different. FI is FI and it works like anyother turbo.


If you cant find a brake system to work then i would just get drilled/slotted rotors

 

Personally I would (and am) change the wheels not just do rotors, I mean it all really depends on how much power you want but more stopping power is always safer and I just do not see the look of a set of wheels as a reason to compramise that.

 

I like the look of the movit breaks. Made by a german company but they have some very nice kits for the stang. One of the car mags out here had them fitted and they survived the Nurburgring which is proof enough to me that there up to the job.

Plus they also look rather tasty the 6 piston front kit and 4 piston rear kit. With a seperate 2 piston caliper as well.

http://www.movit.de/images/muspar01.jpg

 

If you're going with just replacement rotors Disc Brakes Australia makes a good 2 piece replacement rotor.
http://www.dba.com.au/2006/default.asp

 

Someone once told me that changing to SS lines and upgrading your pads is actually better than slotted and drilled rotors. Just an FYI.

 

IMO stay away from drilled rotors. I went with a 14 inch slotted rotor with Aluminum 8 piston Caliper. A little bit of over kill but it looks amazing. Problem is you will pay about 2500k just for the front another 1500 for the back so your looking at 4000k. I probaly wouldn't of gotten these brakes if it wasn't for the sick deal I got, but if money is no issue they look and work amazing!