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Old 03-13-2008, 09:00 PM
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A friend of mine has a 2000 Firebird V6. I was wondering if his brakes were the same as the LS1 F-body brakes. And if so, could we swap brakes, calipers and rotors? I have a 95' Z28.

He wants mine cause they're painted nice and with his wheels you can't see much. I want his cause they look twice the size of mine.

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Old 03-13-2008, 11:35 PM
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Yes,they are the same.You can swap spindles it will only take a few hours.
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Spindles? So I can't just swap rotors and calipers?

I've always heard it was a quick easy swap.

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Ive been reading on this swap and yea you need the spindles, rotors, calipers, bracket and brake lines from ls1.
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Iceman is right.
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http://www.fbody.com/tech/details.cgi?id=29
^^^ this shows you all the parts and how the LS1 parts compares to the LT1 stuff.


http://www.fbody.com/tech/details.cgi?id=30
^^^heres the actual "how to" swap the brakes out and change them to LS1 style...

it's defiantly a great upgrade, and these write up's are excellent
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Cool, I reckon we'll swap this coming weekend then.

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So what about the rear brake swap?

I don't see anything about the rear. Just swap calipers and rotors on the rear?




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