OUCH!!!! thats is expensive!!!!
I do believe i wil just stick with the GXP upgrade.
Thanks

 

I understand that. As I have stated, we supply the GXP upgrade. $750 per axle. Let me know when your ready and give us a call.

 

In regards to drilled/slotted, I use to get the power slot, slotted drilleds and they were decent. I agree that Drilled/slotted are not a good idea if you get cheaper rotors, they have more of a tendancy to crack due to the less/cheaper material.

A few years back I decided to pay a lil more and get drilled/slotted rotors from Baer..pricier, but the change in braking was unbelieveable...and no issues with cracking or anything so I was pleased with them.

I am considering doing a caliper upgrade, when I do I am weighing towards baer calipers...they'll be in the 3k range, just wanna do some upgrades to the gto before I go ahead with this.

Joe

 

IMO, if you're putting the car on a diet enough to be worried about the GXP calipers weighing a little more; then I'd assume switching to the 13" rotors alone would be a no go- especially since they're unsprung weight as well as rotational weight. If you were trying to save weight- you'd would save some going back to a 97-03 GP brake, or I think Intense used to have a kit to use grand am front brakes (for drag use only).

All GP GXP's had the same brakes.

Obviously if you go custom, you can always go as big as you want- but as said above; once you get out of stuff you can pick from a junkyard (ie the GXP parts), you start getting stupid expensive. If you really wanted 14" brakes- you could look into adapting the front calipers from either a C6 Z06 or a CTS-V; as both were made to work with a 14" rotor (which would likely have to be custom drilled for our bolt pattern).

IMO, the cheaper solution if you don't want so much gap would be to drop to a 19" or 18" wheel; plus- 14"+ brakes are going to be completely overkill for any normal setup anyways.

 

I put a set of Brakemotives from Ebay. No problems so far with about 4k miles.

Before:




After:



Finished (wheels not clean)

 

I couldn't even install those brakemotives rotors on my rear without metal flaking off. Haven't had a great experience with them. My car still stops, but I hate doing it when the brakes are hot.

I'm gonna wear them off since I don't drive much anymore, I'll upgrade them to a real rotor when I have the extra cash.

 

Those look really good. How do they look now that you have put 4K on them?

 

Not bad, still shiny a little brake dust:

 

If i upgrade the front brakes to gxp, can i put my 12" fronts on the rear to upgrade the current 11" brakes? The gxp's rears are 12's too.

Thanks

 

hi will the rear calipers from an f body fit in the 2002 mc 3.8 aswell? if so do i need to change the rotors too?