Wilwood or Baer?

[brandonc707]

I have a 67 camaro that I plan to do a complete brake kit on soon(brakes, lines, master cylinder and proportioning valve) I am looking at either the wilwood 12.19 or 12.88" six piston front four piston rear, or the Baer trak 4 kit........ Looking to get some input from you on this site, which way to go? The pricing seems pretty close between the two brands. I have heard that the e brake setup is better on the wilwood, but now have been told that Baer has addressed this? Is it ok now?
Without getting into a ford vs Chevy argument, which way should I go? I want to hear the pros and cons of each kit.
The car will be mainly street driven and has 18" wheels.
Thanks in advance for your help!!
Brandon

[GregWeld]

I'll chime in here -- since I have cars with both systems....

This is super simple in my book... properly set up they're both going to throw you through the windshield if you lock 'em up. Having said that -- the e brake on my Wilwoods works better than the almost completely non working e brake of my Baers. My Baers are 10 years old.

Now - This is why nobody will be able to really answer this "correctly" because you're really asking an OPINION and everyone has a brand favorite....

The 6 piston Wilwood brakes on my buddies 56 Chevy big block suck... but the Wilwood 4 piston brakes I installed on my buddies 55 Chevy worked awesome and were almost like power brakes.... I have worked on my buddies 56 with the 6 piston brakes and have yet to be able to gain any better braking. I think it's the pads on these basically "race" brakes - COLD - they just don't work worth a dang. So go figure that one out. Both use Wilwood 7/8" master cylinder.

For the STREET -- any decent 4 wheel disc brake set up you choose is going to be far a better than whatever you have now.

[Sieg]

Kore 3 and Stop Tech are contenders also. As Greg notes pads can make a big difference. I had a race level pads (high metal content, years ago) on one car and until they had 2 or 3 good stops on them they were scary even with near max pedal pressure when cool.

[Vegas69]

As the old saying goes "You can't bake your cake and eat it too". Put road race pads on a street car and the brakes will suck. Ask me how I know.