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Old 04-07-2014, 01:47 PM
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Just getting ready to put on some ctsv front calipers I was wondering if anyone has put the ctsc rear calipers on the back of a f body camaro and can it be done. I tried searching but came up empty. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Conventional wisdom seems to be to leave the rear brakes stock so as not to introduce too much rear brake bias which can be problematic because our cars are front heavy (you want the front and the back to stop at the same time). If you put a big brake kit on the rear it throws off that balance.

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Originally Posted by infinitebird
Conventional wisdom seems to be to leave the rear brakes stock so as not to introduce too much rear brake bias which can be problematic because our cars are front heavy (you want the front and the back to stop at the same time). If you put a big brake kit on the rear it throws off that balance.
This is true, but can be overcome with a proportioning valve in the system. The other main issue that comes up all the time is that the rear end in our cars has a c-clip axle, which means the axle floats in/out a little bit... there has been comments made about this possibly causing issues with the functionality of the caliper.



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