I been trimming weight on the car this year. I didn't have a weight goal but rather: eliminate the things I won't miss and things that wont adversely effect the car, and keep the car as close to stock appearance as possible. An extensive list of mods and weight reduction items I have done can be found here:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/multimedi...pics-vids.html

So as I've flat out exhausted most free, and some not so free, weight reduction mods, I liked the idea of brakes because of the weight loss, especially being taken off the nose. So, before brakes I was at 3120, no driver, 1/8 tank of gas.



I originally got this kit, with Strange aluminum hubs. After looking I was sure it would not fit behind a stock wheel due to the design and the large dust cap. After searching around I found most drag wheels allow for the dust cap to come through the center. Since switching wheels was not an option I contact Midwest Chassis and they revised the kit to work with a stock hub and therefore stock wheels.

Here's a thread on the wheels I am using:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/wheels-ti...el-chrome.html

The kit for drag wheels:



Here's the modified kit and brackets:



So once I had all the correct parts, I fit it all to the car. You will need either brake line adapters, or a brake line kit. I got the kit from Midwest and it work well. The old hard lines are a pain to break free from the stock adapters so go easy on them. You can see the new line and adapter in place in this picture.



Here they are behind the wheel:



And the weight. I assembled all the strange stuff on the scale and got 25lbs total. I assembled one side of the stock stuff and got about 31lbs. So 62 vs 25. So a 37 pound weight drop:



For driving impressions, the first few stops felt about like stock. After say a half dozen stops the pedal got more reactive and sensitive and the brakes had a very nice intial bite. Very confidence inspiring. I did not do any hard panic type stops but for normal driving you wouldnt know they were there other then the fact that the car seems to stop very well.

 

Looks great, keep up the good/hard work.

 

Nice work!

I've been contemplating on strange brakes as well, but I primarily street drive and don't know how they would hold up in this California heat..

Let me know after you put some more miles on them!

 

Kevin the other sales associate daily drove with his Strange race brakes for years with out issue and now still using the same ones on a bottom 9 second vehicle. The quality of Stranges product has proven itself over and over again for years.

 

Nice man! Something to think about for the future for sure. Did you keep the stock rears on the car?

 

If you are asking if I did? The answer is no I have them on all 4 corners and love them.

 

So I've been looking into some strange brakes... Can i run stock master cylinder and brake booster with these brakes i run stock brakes now with proportioning valve and line lock without a problem and my car is a race car and info would be appreciated thanks

 

I've got them on all 4 corners now and they stop fantastic. I was at the track Friday and I could brake stall the car all the way to the converters rated stall speed. With the stock brakes it would push through about 1k rpms sooner.

 

Yes you can and most of our street/strip customers have four corner Strange brakes on the stock M/C and booster.

 

I wanted to update this, its very clear these work. However the rotor fit is much tighter with a 1/2 wheel stud. They wobble around a little on the 12mm stock sized studs. Once assembled it shouldn't matter just giving a heads up.