Originally Posted by 1Bear

I would contact Supersub “Ray”, as he has always been more than helpful and has been through several sets of brakes, he even designed and built the caliper brackets I’m using to mount the C6 Z06 calipers I’m running now. He currently has the Baer 6S six piston set-up on all four corners I believe, unless things have changed again, but never-the-less he has had quite a bit of experience in what works and what doesn’t and best fitment and where to get them.

Originally Posted by wkdivr

I have the SSBC Tri Power caliper and 14" rotors on my truck, and think it's a great kit for the money. They fit 18" wheels, too. I have 18" Centerlines, and 20" SilveradoSS wheels, and they look good behind both kits. The Wilwood, and Brembo's are definately top of the line kits, but PRICEY!!! The Baer Alumasports aren't much of an increase in performance over the factory brakes, other than looks. Once you get to 15" rotors, and 2 piece rotors, the price gets crazy, unless you have a show truck, or some crazy horsepower to try to stop! I haven't had any troubles with the SSBC slotted but NOT drilled rotors, so I don't have any warranty issues to date. When I finally decided on these (after a TON of research!!), I got my front set for a SMOKIN deal, but they were the wrong color. SSBC said they could do a color change for $100, to pay for the labor of breaking down, and reassembly of the calipers. Then, in talking to the customer service rep, he suggested I just send in the kit I had, and he would exchange the clear coated calipers for the red coated ones I wanted for free, providing the ones I sent to him were unused, and unopened. All it cost me was the shipping. All in all, for me.....a good experience.

Originally Posted by 1Bear

I don’t know your budget, but there are a wide variety of kits out there from mild to pretty extreme. On the low end of things, something I actually believe to work quite well all things considered and possibly better than some of the lower end aftermarket set-up’s is swapping to: larger front calipers and rotors from an ’05 + truck with rear drum brakes, dual piston rear calipers and thicker rotors from an SUV (also came on the Denali & SS trucks), and ultimately combining these with an Hydroboost conversion. The Baer AlumaSport system with PBR calipers would be a nice upgrade over stock, but I really believe the aforementioned stock pieces could most likely best it or at least be competitive. Next would probably be the SSBC Tri-Power 3 piston kits available with stock rotor sizes or the Tri-Power 3 piston kits with plus sized 14” rotors. After that would likely be SSBC Extreme 4 piston kits with 14” rotors, with V6 6 piston kits with 15” rotors being the best SSBC has to offer. Next in no particular order would be the Baer Extreme S6 systems with 15” rotors, the Wilwood W6A 6 piston systems with 14” rotors and ultimately the larger TC6R 6 piston calipers with 15” rotors available. Of course there are Alcon calipers available and so on as well.

I wholly recommend a complete engineered kit, unless you were to go the factory part route, to get the most from your brake installation with minimal hassles. I installed the C6 Z06 6 piston calipers and while they work quite a bit better than the factory parts, it took quite a bit of effort compiling parts and then making everything fit properly. The main reason I went this route is I could piece things together as money was available to do so, making a few purchases at a time until I had everything needed to make the swap. However there is no doubt in my mind, that had I had the funds available to go with the larger Wilwood brake system, I would have chosen that route hands down to gain a sure enough engineered system.

Originally Posted by TIM Z

What all is needed for 05+ front brakes, just caliper brackets in addition to the calipers and rotors? Thanks!