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Originally Posted by andrewmp6

i have used all 3 im sticking with wilwood from here on out.baer i had lacked stoping power but they was only 2 piston front one rear. the ssbc i only used there rears on my truck parking brake wouldnt work they wasnt any help. my wilwoods are 13 inch rotors 6 piston front 4 rear works great.

The Baer 2 piston is better then a lot of 4 and 6 pistons out there.

Couple years ago, Baer seemed to be the more popular but now I see a lot of Wilwood setups.
Lots of threads on camaros.net with dissatisfied customers using wilwood.
I have yet to see hear anything bad about the Baer brakes.
I have to admit, the wilwood master cylinders look very cool in a clean engine bay. I don't know much about the SSBC systems.

Good Luck,

Rich

what about the c5 setup is it worth it...

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Originally Posted by rich-allen

Rich, We just had this conversation over at Camaros with David Pozzi, and we kind of all agree using a small set of Wilwoods in extreme conditions, like racing, which David is a racer, is NOT the hot set up. But we also agree on the street for normal driving, normal agreesive legal street driving, even the small Wilwoods are fine. In fact latetly there has been much praise for the smaller (Isn't it funny when we call 12.2" set ups small, LOL) Wilwood kits. I think most of the grief is over the 10.75 set ups that really are kind of small for any agreesive driving. I tend to agree that a good factory set up is as good as the 10.75 unless weight savings (RE: drag car) is a advantage.

The real advantage of Wilwood over Baer, is for the same money as a single piston PBR Baer, we can sell a 6 piston / 4 piston Wilwood set up that kicks the Baers ass in both bling and performance. And the smaller 12.2 / 12.2 4 piston set ups start at only $1500 for front and rear, and hardware and you cannot hardly buy a front Baer kit for that much.

The Baers are great brakes. I mean, they were good enough for factory cars back in the 90s, so they must not suck. but for the same money the Wilwood kills them.

The only way I over do my 12.2" wilwoods, is heavy road course type driving. The 0.81" thick rotors don't like it after a while. That is why I am looking to step up to a thicker rotor. Other than that for better heat dissipation, the Wilwoods are great. Use some Thermlock pistons and it gets even better.

The Baer Price:Performance ratio is too high compared to the Wilwoods (meaning the wilwoods are as good if not better for much le$$!).

Plus they are very cool guys who really do what they can to make and keep you happy! Awesome CS.