iregret

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So I'm wanting to do a brake upgrade on my 2000 Silverado. I've been searching around and have found there is a "budget" brake upgrade.

You would take the front calipers from a 2005+ Silverado and the rears from a 2000-06 Suburban, Tahoe, Escalade, etc. (2 piston)

I called my local Autozone and I can order "loaded" calipers for about 100.00 per wheel. The loaded calipers come with brake pads but more importantly, caliper's brackets.

The core charge is 47.00 per wheel.

So I'm looking at about 600.00 to replace/upgrade my calipers. (Still need rotors.)

While I'm doing this I'm also planning on stainless steel braided lines and going hydro boost.

Does anyone have the correct part numbers and source the do this cheaper? (Calipers, brackets, rotors...)

Anyone know what the correct part numbers for the braided lines are?

Thanks everyone!

01silvy

Cant really help with the part numbers but i will say something else i found out about doing the rear brakes is you can get the rear calipers and rotors from a Z71 suburban or tahoe and the roters will be wider by a few mm, which would help braking even more.. when i upgrade my rear brakes ill be getting the parts from a Z71.. after all the upgrades you are about to do, ou brakes will be a completely different animal.. all i have done so far are the ss braided lines and that helped out pretty good.. i hope to do hydroboost on mine in a few weeks.

Good luck and let us know how it works out.

iregret

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I know I'm a cheap skate, but my budget brake upgrade looks like its going to cost me around a 1000.00!

Each caliper and rotor costs about 100.00. That's 800.00 plus the stainless steel braided lines. I haven't found those part numbers yet but I figure they'll be about 150.00.

Front loaded calipers:

Drivers side
RC11714

Passengers side
RC11713

Rear loaded calipers:

Drivers side
RC11169

Passengers side
RC11170

2000chevysilverado

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its gotta be cheaper then that have you called around to any salvage yards instead of new but if its got low miles might save you some dough too

01silvy

Does that number have your hydroboost parts figured in too? Its deff not gonna be cheap to do all 4 corners at one time but i think you would be really happy with the end result from the way other guys talk about these mods.. also dont forget you need atleast 17" rims up front to clear those calipers, just throwing that out there in case you didnt know.

iregret

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Thanks guys.

Yeah, I've got 20" wheels so that's no problem.

Each caliper costs around 100.00.
Each rotor costs around 100.00.

Then there's the 50.00 core charge for each caliper.

I have found that the calipers are around 89.00 each if you order them on eBay. That would save some cash.

I was considering going the junkyard route. I found a guy on Craigslist that will sell the rear calipers for 100.00. I'm wondering if it would be worth it to try to rebuild them myself. Trying to find low mileage rear calipers would be tough. LOL!

The hydro boost parts I need are the hoses and the brake pedal. About 100.00 worth of parts. I need to look up the braided lines.

iregret

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I've been searching and cross referencing part numbers for hours. I think I've found the cheapest way to put this together.

The cheapest place to find everything seems to be eBay. The calipers are about the same price as Autozone, but with no core charge. I think I may just go through Autozone and deal with the core charge though. Autozone has a decent rewards program and if anything screws up with thr calipers I can return it locally.

Here are all the part numbers I've came up with:

Front loaded calipers:
(05+)
Drivers side
RC11714

Passengers side
RC11713

Rear loaded calipers:
(SUV dual piston)
Drivers side
RC11169

Passengers side
RC11170

Centric rotors:
(05+)
Front
120.66057

(SUV)
Rear
120.66045

Russell stainless steel braided brake lines:
(For my 2000 Silverado)
672430

Russell Performance - Truck/SUV Brake Hose

Now those rotors above are the non-slotted versions. If you want the "Powerslot" versions here are those part numbers:

Front
126.66057SR
126.66957SL

Rear
126.66045SR
126.66045SL

Bare in mind, there is a 40.00 per rotor price increase for slotted. Is it with an additional 160.00 for slotted rotors?

So if I ordered everything through eBay and the Russell SS kit through Summit, my total would be 772.00 shipped.

Then I'll need the hoses to hook up hydro boost and the correct brake pedal.

Those part numbers if you're interested.

Hydro boost Pedal
15906961

Hydroboost Lines
15295853
15804952
15295840

Does anyone know if they make a hydro boost rebuild kit? I thought I remember reading about it. I figure I may as well do that while it's out.

iregret

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Oh, I wanted to ad this in too.

So from the factory 1999-2006 trucks come with 12" front brakes. You can upgrade to 13" brakes by bolting on 05+ front calipers. As stated above that would cost around 720.00. If you wanted you could go with 14" rotors by using a SSBC kit.

Here:
SSBC:: A126-47

The kit is 500.00. Roughly the total would be 1100.00.

To go to 15" brakes you can run Z06 6 piston calipers with adapter brackets. The brakes are freekin awesome. To buy all the stuff to make that happen would be around 2500.00.

So,
12" brakes = no cost
13" brakes = 700.00
14" brakes = 1100.00
15" brakes = 2500.00

That seems crazy to me. Each inch you add the price doubles. LMAO!

Chevy Cowboy

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I did this upgrade on my silverado before i sold it, the entire upgrade costed me about 600 for everything new, ordered suburban loaded dual piston calipers, and rotors, and they accepted my stock single piston calipers as a core, best upgrade I did for stopping power, without the abs and I could lockup the rear tires on command, or bring the truck to a quick stop with minimal effort

01silvy

You should be able to find rotor for cheaper than that at any parts store.. you should be able to get them for $60-$80.. I would also look on RockAuto Auto Parts for your rotors since its very likely they will fail and you'll have to return them.. but i would try to get calipers and stuff local so they would be easy to return.