[V8] brake upgrades..

[Kent McLean]

NIck Miller wrote:
> .. but I'm just looking at maybe getting a set of calipers and making
> some brackets when I have a bit of down time coming up here.

> be fairly economical, and a bit better than OE UfO's.

I think Roger said it: a good set of UFOs provide great braking, and it will be 
cheaper to source new UFOs and rebuild the current set-up than it will be to 
design, source, and (re-)build non-UFOs replacements.

If you don't want UFOs, then here goes: I don't think you can use the words 
"Porsche" and "economical" in the same sentence.  Porsche builds some of the 
best brakes in the world; you pay for that. I don't know the pricing of Corvette 
brakes, but Googling production numbers, it seems they build fewer Corvettes 
than Porsches [1]. The Cadillac CTS-V brakes are Brembos, get good reviews, and 
may be worth looking into (109 feet from 60mph) [2].

[1]
Corvette: <http://www.oddrob.com/corvetteStats.asp>
Porsche (all): <http://www.productioncars.com/production-numbers/porsche_new.php>

[2]
CTS-V: 
<http://www.insideline.com/cadillac/cts-v/2009/full-test-2009-cadillac-cts-v.html>

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"