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From: Cincinnati, Ohio
I would say that Wilwood is probably one of the most popular brake pakages out there. if you want something more exotic you can get a AP Racing, Movit, or Brembo setup. Ball park price is $1500 for Wilwoods and AP and others are $3000 and up.
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From: LaConner WA
They don't make them any more ... Think Movit or Stoptech for a comparable system. I think those kits are around $2500. Lucky me I got in on the close out sale for the last 12 Prospeed kits. I paid $1695 for mine 
Probably the best money I've spent on my car.
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I really want the performance plus the look. My car is driven once a week if that. I only work less than a block away from my house so the weekends are really the only time i drive it. I would really like to do some road racing at least 2-3 times a year. don't get me wrong, i love drag racing, but i'm more passionate about road racing and have always wanted to do it. now i finally have a car worth road racing. Plus, i've heard after a few fast slow downs from 150mph the brakes are **** anyway. Thanks for the replies.
Originally Posted by Racehead
You sold your brakes ?? I bet that hurt to let them go huh ?
The funny thing is they sold a few hours after I hinted at them being for sale.
I was going through a set of front rotors every weekend and a set of pads every other weekend. I installed big brakes ... I went over a year on rotors and replaced them unnecessarily. I went through 60% of 1 set of track pads.
It's a chunk out of pocket, but you just don't have to deal with brakes any more.
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From: Flower Mound, TX
If you are just concerned about looks and want a little better performance, I say go for some larger rotors with brackets for your calipers, better pads and some SS lines. no sense in going off spending $1k on brakes that are going to be daily driven and hardly ever see the track
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BottleRocket, I see what your saying and I agree. Some day though I hope to have more money and time to road race it more than once a year. I figure if I'm going to do it at all I, might as well do it right and only once. I want to be able to go to the track and have no worries. Do most aftermarket brake kits come with SS lines?
I had..once apon a time the Brembo 4 piston kit on my car and im deffently sorry that I sold them.... well not that sorry when I found out front pads and rotors were 675... and thats at cost...
Stoptech makes a great kit for big brakes. A close friend is a Viper tech and has installed many Baer/Alcon kits and Stoptechs. He prefers the Stoptechs.
I have a set of MovIt Brembos using 993 Big red calipers waiting to go on my C5. Can't go wrong using pads from a production car. http://www.ultimategarage.com for MovIt kits.
I have a set of MovIt Brembos using 993 Big red calipers waiting to go on my C5. Can't go wrong using pads from a production car. http://www.ultimategarage.com for MovIt kits.
At $2k Stoptechs BETTER be impressive! That's almost as much as my Moser 9" was.
http://www.stoptech.com/cgi/Products.cgi
Can you tell I'm a drag racer? I'm used to rolling to a stop. But thanks (?) to Racehead & NataSSinc, I'm starting to have to look into things like this for open road racing. Guess I need to return that call to Larry @ CarboTech & see what he has to say. I was thinking more like a grand.
http://www.stoptech.com/cgi/Products.cgi
Can you tell I'm a drag racer? I'm used to rolling to a stop. But thanks (?) to Racehead & NataSSinc, I'm starting to have to look into things like this for open road racing. Guess I need to return that call to Larry @ CarboTech & see what he has to say. I was thinking more like a grand.
Good Big Brakes aren't cheap, price out some AP kits. Most can get by with some 13" rotors and good pads. Like anything else in this game how fast you want to go is how much money you have.