13" Front Brake Upgrade

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03-10-2010, 10:47 PM

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H0SS302

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With aftermarket pads, the 13" brake upgrade is all you will ever need unless your heavy heavy into tracking your car.

your only 10ft away from a corvettes braking distance 60-0 with stock pads. With aftermarket stuff you should be only a couple foot off. Thats exceptional stopping power from a 3500+lb blob of rolling mass.

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03-10-2010, 11:06 PM

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and the corvettes are even lighter than that...the z06 only weighs like 3151 wet.

03-10-2010, 11:26 PM

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and the corvettes are even lighter than that...the z06 only weighs like 3151 wet.

my point exactly. Iv seen people coming on here saying that its not a big upgrade... I look at those posts and just facepalm.

03-10-2010, 11:34 PM

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those posts more make me want to kick babies...but thats just me. I cant wait for my cobra brake upgrade!!!

03-11-2010, 02:50 PM

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Hoss did you re-use your stock brake lines or did you get some SS lines? If so, which ones.

03-11-2010, 03:42 PM

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Hoss did you re-use your stock brake lines or did you get some SS lines? If so, which ones.

yup. I want to upgrade to hawk pads though.

03-11-2010, 04:25 PM

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yup. I want to upgrade to hawk pads though.

I asked you 2 questions lol. I assume that its a yes you used stock lines lol.

Why do you want hawk pads? Car isn't biting hard enough?

03-11-2010, 05:39 PM

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lol my bad dude..

i used the stock lines. I want hawk pads because iv noticed some fade with the oem pads and maybe some aftermarket pads will solve that. if its just a DD car though, the stock pads are perfectly fine.

03-11-2010, 06:19 PM

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Yeah its just a daily driving car... What brake fluid did you use? I can use my dad's dot-3 when i decide to do it, or i can buy dot-4.. I might jsut go all out. SS lines up front with DOT4 for all 4 corners.