Brembo Brakes

[H2BRUTE]

Can't seem to find any recent threads on big brakes, but with the bigger tires and wheels, its seems as if I'm pushing harder on the pedal these days to stop the BRUTE. Brembo Grand Turismo seems the way to go, but $7500 plus install. Whew, that's a hard pill to swallow. Any other comparable big brake systems out there that any of you have installed at less money? Is it possible to get a better brake system than stock without having to spend thousands? Appreciate your thoughts..Thanks..Da BRUTE

[CONRAD II]

I agree, the Brembo package seems way expensive. Also, people who have the BIG break kits have not noticed much more stopping power. Now that I have the supercharger I"m always in the throttle so I'm in the market for bigger breaks that work.

[tomp]

I ended up buying Power Slot slotted rotors and Hawk performance pads. Have not had time to install them yet

[W1N]

Brembos are great, woudn't say a bad thing about them. And they seem to stop the supercharged beast like nothing...

[Captain of the Titanic]

CHeck with SSBC (Stainless Steel Brake Corp). They make some good brake packages for a better price.

I installed a setup on my 99 Tahoe when I upgraded from 31s to 35s. The change definitely saved me from wrecks on more than one occasion.

[professorhp]

INHO Brembo's are the Lamborghini of brake systems out there. I had a set on my corvette that was pushing 520 rwhp NA. The were very impressive to say the least. However Brembo isn't the only option out there for big brake kits. If i were to do it over, i'd be looking into the Wilwood kits as they are 1/2 the price of brembo at $3200 and in my opinion built just as good.

Additionally, Baer makes some good kits as well, but im not to familiar with any applications they might have for the trucks. I know they have some 4 piston setups, but i assume you're looking at a 6 pistion upgrade.

Check them out!

[MDimitri]

Simple upgrade was the Vented Brembo Rotors:



Set of Raybestos SSD784 severe duty stop pads:



Plus install was around $600.00.

[H2BRUTE]

Well, after doing some research on the internet, I ended up getting Bembo's after all. I can't believe I spent the bucks on brakes, but the place I have been having work done, had a set of Gran Turismo's from last year so he gave me last years pricing which is significantly less that what these things are costing today..Must be making them out of gold today. 8 pistons in front, and 6 in rear. It definitely does stop you and very smoothly I must say. Anyway, I am very happy so far. A very noticible improvement over the originals. Went to beach this morning to take a picture or two and unfortunately the camera died (xxx*** batteries)after taking one picture at 5 megapixels which I can't post.. I will try again tomorrow. ps it also completes the tire, wheel look..

[H2BRUTE]

Finally got some new pics with the brakes..

[H2bill]

Wouldn't it have been a lot cheaper to just paint the OEM brakes red?

[HummBob]

Nice!!!

[HUMMERcustoms.com/TAZ]

Most braking unless extremely hard braking is done with front brakes. I have been talking to some reps and they say spend money on the front and just upgrade rear rotors and pads.

They talked like the rear mostly for hard breaking and E brake. It was mentioned that if a person has the bad habit of riding the break pedal then You may get excessve wear on rear breaks versus normal use.
Just passing what i heard along.

Have not tried this yet but, think I will do it and see what happens.

TAZ

[obzidian]

those brakes are great. They not only look good, but have a hard bit with an even patch on the rotor with those 8 pistons fronts/6 rears.

If you want to search around a bit on brakes, look into a company called stoptech. They also make high-end brakes but far from that, they provide tons on info on their site about brake technology. For example, if you want to upgrade the fronts, you HAVE to upgrade the rears. However, that doesn't mean go bigger in the rear. The car/truck is balanced from factory with and if you increase the front spotting power, than that balance is now off, you must now compensate.

Among that, drilled AND slotted rotors are a bad thing. Before, they were introduced because brake pad technology wasn't up to par with racecar technology. However, the brake pad has gotten better and better and now, really, you dont need drilled and slotted rotors. Basically, brakes work on surface area to disapate the heat in the pad so they wont fade. If you remove surface area, you removing brake efficiency. However, some will argue that with the slots and drilled holes, you impove the heat tranfers or cooling.

Well, not there is less material to abosorb heat. Also, less material between the slots, you run the risk of cracking your rotors, warping them, etc.

So, bla bla bla.... those brakes are hot!!! congrates!!!