Camaro 4 Piston Brembo kit

[Ccmano]

I have yet the see a set of C6Z06 caliper going for $400. Most I have seen are $900+. Brand new Camaro Brembos are widely available and cheap whereas C6Z06 calipers are fewer and more expensive. More importantly the pads and rotors for the Camaro Brembo are much cheaper.

Not sure if we will get anywhere with this. Also not sure if anyone, including me, would be willing the incur the liability exposure of producing adapters for sale to the pubic. We shall see.
H

[XfireZ51]

I just saw a set of front calipers on CF sold for $400, used of course, but so what. I had just the fronts on for sometime before picking up a set of the rears along w the Street Shop adapter. The fronts alone are well worth it IMO.

[USAZR1]

This place offers Brembo conversions. I talked to Scott via email about a kit for my 70 El Camino restomod. The problem you run into with those calipers, is that their overhang sometimes requires expensive custom wheels, to clear them. http://bigbrakeupgrade.com/

I ended up going with a C6 Z51 brake set-up, from KORE3. Tobin is a brake engineer and is a great guy to deal with. If you need Corvette or Wilwood brakes, he can help you out. Here's one C6 Z06 brake kit they sell.
http://www.kore3.com/proddetail.php?prod=10336-03

[Ccmano]

Originally Posted by USAZR1

This place offers Brembo conversions. I talked to Scott via email about a kit for my 70 El Camino restomod. The problem you run into with those calipers, is that their overhang sometimes requires expensive custom wheels, to clear them. http://bigbrakeupgrade.com/

I ended up going with a C6 Z51 brake set-up, from KORE3. Tobin is a brake engineer and is a great guy to deal with. If you need Corvette or Wilwood brakes, he can help you out. Here's one C6 Z06 brake kit they sell.
http://www.kore3.com/proddetail.php?prod=10336-03

Good info, thanks Clint. I’m still mulling this over. I am running C6 Grand Sport Wheels. They are 18x9.5 on the front so there is a lot of room for calipers. The Kore3 C6Z06 Kit is still $1200 with OE pads.
H

[USAZR1]

Jegs sells new C6Z calipers, for $299/each, but you still need pads, pins, fasteners, lines, etc. It all adds up, in a hurry.

Instead of using C6Z calipers, I'm probably going to go with Wilwood Aero6 units. A pair of those, with pads and longer brake lines, is around $900.

[msv]

If you guys want to get an idea of wheel clearance when using C6 discs, I've attached 2 pdf brake profiles. One with C6 Z51 discs that are 340x32mm and one with C6 Z06 discs that are 355x32m.

These are 1:1 scale, so you can print them out at full size if you uncheck the "fit to page" option. The hatched rectangle on the bottom will fit into the wheel centerbore in order to properly locate the profile.

Using off-the-shelf OE parts ends up making for worse clearance than if a system was really designed specifically for the C4. The C4 disc is much deeper than the C6 or C7 cars, by almost 1/2".

[Ccmano]

Thanks, just to clarify, I assume this is utilizing the 4 Piston Camaro/Corvette C7 Z51 caliper with C6 rotors.

So in the pictures above I note an adapter. Is that a mock-up or an actual design. Appears to be a different caliper mount design than GM.

H

[msv]

Originally Posted by Ccmano

Thanks, just to clarify, I assume this is utilizing the 4 Piston Camaro/Corvette C7 Z51 caliper with C6 rotors.

So in the pictures above I note an adapter. Is that a mock-up or an actual design. Appears to be a different caliper mount design than GM.

H

It is for the pictured package, not the Camaro/C7 caliper. This is a Brembo radial mount caliper that has the proper pad shape to work with the C6 discs, and the correct piston area to work properly with the C4 hydraulic/ABS system. The radial mount design makes for a much better and cleaner installation.

[Ccmano]

Care to share which brembo caliper that might be?

Needless to say, space is not an issue up to about a 355mm rotor...
H

[msv]

Originally Posted by Ccmano

Care to share which brembo caliper that might be?

Needless to say, space is not an issue up to about a 355mm rotor...
H

It's not a caliper that is used on any OEM installations. It is a caliper that is specific to Brembo's aftermarket upgrade systems.