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Figured I would throw up another thread for what I am getting into within the next few weeks.

I guess the car really didn't need brakes, then I got some killer deals on somethings and figured, oh well I guess I better just do it.

After talking with Tobin at Kore 3, great guy by the way, about the brake setup and I was going to modify to make work on my car, I decided to start hunting for a set of C6 Vette 6 piston fronts and 4 piston rears for calipers, 14 inch rotors in the front with 13.4 inch rotors for the rear.

No I was able to get a complete caliper set off a wrecked 2010 grandsport (same calipers as the Z06 silver instead of red) for pretty cheap and very low miles.

So I picked these up and began hunting down parts to see how cheap I could get away with doing this.

Here is a pic of the calipers.

I looked for sourcing of the rotors and I was going to go with Kore3, but I found a set of rotors for less than 1/2 the price of the rotors from Kore 3, no the machining for the 5 on 5 bolt pattern isn't done as well as the center bore needs to be opened up, but I have a local cnc shop that can handle that for me.

Here are the rotors that I got for the install, not GM but who cares really, as long as they work well, which they should. Hell he boxes with the rotors showed up today, the boxes with all four rotors was like 110 pounds total. I will shoot a comparison picture, old to new tonight when I go out and tinker a little bit with it. They are big, that is for sure.

I am going to have to figure out the parking brake setup as I am not going to pay 800 bucks alone for that setup, I am sure that I can figure that out.

So hopefully I can get this done rather quickly and not so costly, I think that I have most the parts, there are couple of things that I will get from Kore3, but I am truly on the fence about the hubs from them, not that they aren't great, I may just make my own from an old set of brakes, not sure yet.


Stay tuned.....

 

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Yeah weekend project sure. Not with a 14 month old and a 60 hour a week job

 

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Piss off Bob LOL just kidding man, let's see if I can pull all this off, Oh as far as I am concerned you are a step a head of me

 

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Yeah they get pretty thin, I have been told the trick to them, I was told that TCE machines the rotors off of the hubs for his kits. IT is doable you just have to know how to do it

I would like to get the ones Tobin sells, but the price tag is kindof a deal breaker, I will try to machine a rotor and see what happens, worst case I have to get them from Tobin

 

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Hey Bill,

Yeah I really have contemplated just that, keeping it at 4.75 bolt pattern in the front and that is most likely the road that I am going to go down, I started thinking about it more again when I was out in my shop dicking around with it. If I could find aset of used ready to be trashed 1LE rotors I would do just as you stated and Jay and I had talked about that. But looking at the cost of the 1LE rotors I would just be better off going with Tobin's hubs as those rotors are damn expensive, at 125 or so a pop.
I have chatted with Todd as well. Not really bad in pricing, but again if I was going to outlay that cost, I might as well go with Tobin's stuff again.

Rotor source is a place called Brakemotive, he is over on the vette forums here Brakemotive, he mainly does sales on Ebay, but I couldn't beat it really, he beat the price that he had listed in the link above, by 15 bucks and I got the rotors the next day. Great service.

Yeah Jay and myself have been chatting back and forth through pm about this to extent.

 

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More pics...
New 5/8's spindles, to cut up

The line up of what is going on, not cleaned up yet but you get the idea

Here is kindof a comparison pic, but not really I will have to shoot one when the original is off the car.

ohhhh...

I forgot to take a pic of the rears, same concept

 

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Thanks man, IT is all about the parts hunt to be honest. I won't have much really into the entire setup, but I traded some parts I had and stuff like that. Let alone selling some things as well.

 

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Thanks man, always something to do around here on it.

 

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thanks Dave, I had seen that they were going to need that, so did they just spot face the back of the hat assembly, I hadn't looked at the back of my rotors too closely to see, but that is what I would think.

 

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Thanks Bill, I talked with my CNC guy this morning and I am going to drop off all the rotors to him Wednesday, he is going to open up the center bore to the B Body spec, and machine the back face of the rears and I have the lip similar to the Z51 rotors above.

Also I talked with Tobin via email in regards to a few questions on his hubs, he made a good point that he didn't know if I could use his hubs, due to having the Z06 wheels that the spacer may not be able to be hubcentric, or wheel centric rather.

Moving right along, I will figure something out. Still unsure which way to go. I really was leaning towards Tobins hubs, but not sure again.

 

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I don't have the front adapters yet. I wanted to make sure that I have everything all setup with what I am going with in the brakes and then get the adapters right. As the Hub is going to play a key role in the adapter thickness.

Not sure on the rotors I will shoot some pics of them today/ tonight so that you can see if they are. In most regards I am betting that they are just mold copies of the originals.

 

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I just looked at his listed here Z06 Rotors

And they are made by Powerstop if that matters and I also sent the seller an email to ask is they are balanced or not.

 

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Here is a comparison pic for you, new and old. I would think that the new brakes are going to make a difference. Pic was taken with my phone but I think it came out ok.

 

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Thanks Bob it is getting there, but it is a what piece to get from whom type game now. I could make my own hubs, but that pushes the track width out to the point were the spacer/adapter for my rims would be too short. I have another idea I am working over in my head right now, but not sure if that one will work.

I will have to get into that a little later, but I am moving right along

 

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Thanks man, yeah it is coming right along for sure.

I went ahead and ordered the hubs and front brackets from Tobin @ Kore 3 last night. It makes sense and really making my own and dinking around with making brackets for the front, wasn't worth it. I could of had the hubs turned out of original rotor/hub assembly, but damn the junkyards around here wanted 35 bucks a piece for rotor/hub assembly, then to "borrow" my buddies lathe was going to cost as well.

 

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Hey Ken,

I haven't received the hubs yet they will be here Thursday, according to Fed Ex. Is this something that I missed that I am going to need to set them up correctly? I would assume that Tobin would of put them in there for this, but not sure.

 

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Yeah now that you say that I remember reading something on here about it. But I'll be damned if I can find it again. LOL

 

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Ok figured I would update what has been going on, I have the front dismantled as you can guess by the pictures above. I ordered Tobin's hubs, I could of done all of the farting around trying to make something work having to measure measure and measure again for something that has already been figured out. Since I saved on the rotors, I went ahead and purchased the HD hubs for our cars, and the front brackets.

I also picked up a mock rearend this evening, that will most likely end up in the car as mine that is in there has some issues, doesn't do anything drastic, but this is a lower mileage unit that needs to be cleaned up a bit, thanks Mike (94MSP9C1)

Hub's will be here Thursday and I will most likely have everything for the front complete this weekend sometime, I would imagine anyway. May replace the brake lines, all of them, they are crusty and well I just don't feel like dicking with them, waiting on a call back from inline tube about that. Have some parts on order for the rear setup, that crossing my fingers should work. Trying to get a hold of a plasma cutter so I can hack up my frame rails in the back, so I can get the adapters on order. Can't move a car with big fat brakes on it, that needs at least an 18 inch wheel

 

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Thanks Ken I will see what I come up with on that.

 

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No need to be jealous, I just have the ability sometimes to find some great deals on things, I sold the Baer Brake setup that I bought at an EXTREMELY great price, for a little more than I purchased it for yesterday, I have to go ship that out pretty quick. So I am feeling pretty good about that.

Also I have to have something new or wanting to try something out on my cars ALOT, it sucks