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Originally Posted by rich-allen
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
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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.