Recommendations for Calipers??

[Shirl]

I have new power slot rotors and new ceramic pads and the brakes still feel spongy. I never liked the braking in our cars. I'm thinking a two (or more) piston caliper might help. Suggestions or comments??

[PiLOTLiTE]

How many miles on the car? You might consider going to stainless steel braided lines since your stockers might be old and swollen. At the same time bleed them with new fluid; ATE Superblue is nice. That should definitely increase your pedal feel.

[Tru2Chevy]

I second that motion...if you still have the stock rubber lines in, they will swell everytime you press the pedal and make the brakes feel spongy.

- Justin

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

advanced auto sells new powder coat calipers now... not sure if there performance in mind but that have about 10 colors :D

[FirebirdGT]

Originally posted by Shirl:
I have new power slot rotors and new ceramic pads and the brakes still feel spongy. I never liked the braking in our cars. I'm thinking a two (or more) piston caliper might help. Suggestions or comments??

With all you have done to your car, I find it hard to believe that you haven't installed the 98+ 2-piston front calipers yet. Easy and cheap. What a difference! It appears that the C5 calipers may also fit.

[Turbo V6 Camaro]

Originally posted by FirebirdGT:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Shirl:
I have new power slot rotors and new ceramic pads and the brakes still feel spongy. I never liked the braking in our cars. I'm thinking a two (or more) piston caliper might help. Suggestions or comments??

With all you have done to your car, I find it hard to believe that you haven't installed the 98+ 2-piston front calipers yet. Easy and cheap. What a difference! It appears that the C5 calipers may also fit. </font>[/QUOTE]you also have to change the rotors to do that

[FirebirdGT]

Originally posted by viper04af:
you also have to change the rotors to do that

Quite true, 11.9" instead of 10.5".

[Shirl]

Thanks for all the replies. I think Advanced Auto parts wants an exchange for their calipers. From what I understood from them, they are basically the same as the stock ones, but I'll have to check again on that. If not, I'll probably go with Robert's suggestion for the two piston ones and what pilotlite said about the lines and fluid. The car only has 23,000 miles on it. In comparison to my Cavalier though, the brakes suck. The cav stops on a dime and easy to control, the Camaro is not... and sometimes I even have bad dreams about the brakes being screwed and causing an accident (so that's not a good sign). Next mods on the list...ASAP. Thanks again, everyone!

[shenanigans]

If I was made of money like some of you guys are I would go with C5 brakes... if not at least 98+


my 94 stopped real well with new rotors, 4 wheel disc, and hawk pads... Then I got my 94 which stopped just as good, maybe even slightly better with all factory original parts. Just the hawks never had brake fade while the stockers did.

[shenanigans]

Originally posted by PiLOTLiTE:
ATE Superblue is nice.

Anyone have experience with this stuff?

[PiLOTLiTE]

Originally posted by shenanigans:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by PiLOTLiTE:
ATE Superblue is nice.

Anyone have experience with this stuff? </font>[/QUOTE]It's been in my car for over 20,000 miles. I wouldn't recommend something I don't have personal experience with. :D

[carmelcarswholesale]

We use ATE SuperBlue brake fluid in our SCCA SSB Camaros...absolutely no fade or boiling...cheap compared to Castrol SRF at $15 vs $60...make sure and completely flush your system when changing the fluid...rp

[shenanigans]

its about time... someone reccomended it, I have been looking around for a decent fluid for awhile.


Anyone use it in the clutch? should work just as good.

[zlexiss]

I use ATE fluid as well, after boiling my stock fluid at an autocross last year. Complete flush and never had any problems since.

Compared to many racing fluids, it has a very high wet boiling point - great if you don't want to flush out your fluid on a very regular basis. I change mine once a year with a decent load of road racing and autocrossing use.

The Superblue and ATE Type 200 are both equally specced - they're meant to switch back and forth between, makes it easy to see when you've got all the old stuff flushed out.

I buy mine from OG Racing (www.ogracing.com)

[shenanigans]

cool...

I have been killing my brake fluid, but whats really going out on me is my clutch fluid, which I am really interested in looking into.