2013 GT500 brakes

[07TGGT]

OP, good job on getting a good deal. If they were regular priced, I'd say it isn't worth the extra cost.

A few questions: noticed an brake bias? Having 6 pot in the front and running standard GT brakes in the rears? It bothers me how we have such beautiful front brakes and Corrola looking brakes in the rear.

Any decent rear replacements or upgrades? I know Baer and I believe Roush make a 14 inch rotor upgrade for the rears but still utilize the standard 2 piston calipers.

What made you go with the 15" over the Boss 14's? One inch of cooling sounds nice and a littler more clamping power, but what about the weight penalty with the 15's?

Also, I say this out of confusion - not sarcasm, but how is this not a tech topic? Non-tech in my opinion are exhaust questions, intake and "what do you think of this?

Have you tried the search button?

All these questions have been answered many, many times before.

 

[Blackbeast12]

There's no such thing as overkill when it comes to brakes!

 

[Drkmrkiv]

Have you tried the search button?

All these questions have been answered many, many times before.

So, discussion within the thread is discouraged? Asking OP on his personal experiences with his setup is as well?

I just about get an anxiety attack every time I post something on this forum. I got flamed so hard when I made a thread about potential bad ecu. People said it wasn't technical enough until mods came in and said it was.

If you want this community to grow and have fellowship, maybe people shouldn't be so harsh on the average guy asking questions/furthering the discussion. Isn't that the whole point of these communities?

There's no such thing as overkill when it comes to brakes!

Judging from what most track guys say, our stock rears are adequate. However, I've been looking at Baer's rear 14" rotor upgrade. Even from an aesthetic point of view - the rears look insignificant compared to the fronts.

 

[07TGGT]

So, discussion within the thread is discouraged? Asking OP on his personal experiences with his setup is as well?

I just about get an anxiety attack every time I post something on this forum. I got flamed so hard when I made a thread about potential bad ecu. People said it wasn't technical enough until mods came in and said it was.

If you want this community to grow and have fellowship, maybe people shouldn't be so harsh on the average guy asking questions/furthering the discussion. Isn't that the whole point of these communities?




Judging from what most track guys say, our stock rears are adequate. However, I've been looking at Baer's rear 14" rotor upgrade. Even from an aesthetic point of view - the rears look insignificant compared to the fronts.

You're asking questions that could easily be answered with a search. Stop being a whiner.

You don't know how this forum operates, so I suggest you learn how it does. We don't discuss the same things over and over in new threads.

Search for an answer to your question first. If not found, which is not too often, then you ask or discuss.

 

[barbaro]

So, discussion within the thread is discouraged? Asking OP on his personal experiences with his setup is as well?

I just about get an anxiety attack every time I post something on this forum. I got flamed so hard when I made a thread about potential bad ecu. People said it wasn't technical enough until mods came in and said it was.

If you want this community to grow and have fellowship, maybe people shouldn't be so harsh on the average guy asking questions/furthering the discussion. Isn't that the whole point of these communities?




Judging from what most track guys say, our stock rears are adequate. However, I've been looking at Baer's rear 14" rotor upgrade. Even from an aesthetic point of view - the rears look insignificant compared to the fronts.

I second that. Here, disagreements become disagreeable in in the bat of an eye. No matter what the subject, there is an appointed authority. Then there is his acolytes and then there is the peanut gallery that will chime in with a cheap shot. I agree that this is no place for guys just getting into these cars. There are much friendlier places. But if you have a thick skin and don't mind the douchebags, you can actually learn something here.

 

[barbaro]

You're asking questions that could easily be answered with a search. Stop being a whiner.

You don't know how this forum operates, so I suggest you learn how it does. We don't discuss the same things over and over in new threads.

Search for an answer to your question first. If not found, which is not too often, then you ask or discuss.

Relax. Leave the moderating to the moderators. You can be a cop when you get back to the states.

 

[barbaro]

To answer the question Willwood makes a rear brake kit for these cars. Do use the search button here and elsewhere but no big deal for me at least. There has been at least one person who has mounted some rear brembos but I believe there was extensive modification involved.

 

[07TGGT]

Relax. Leave the moderating to the moderators. You can be a cop when you get back to the states.

LOL another one who obviously doesn't know how this forum operates...

 

[ford20]

This is a tech topic, let's not fuck it up with trivial banter.

 

[frank s]

Yeah, but it's difficult to discriminate among technical badinage, persiflage, raillery, and trivial banter.

 

[nyuk98GT]

Yeah, but it's difficult to discriminate among technical badinage, persiflage, raillery, and trivial banter.

Enjoyed this quite a lot. Keep up the good work.

Chris

 

[jcw427]

Big brakes was the best mod I made. I love my W6A front and W4A rear brakes. Even with looking seat belts I can make an unsuspecting annoying passenger kiss the dash. Although I find under really hard stops I'm more worried about what's behind me than I front of me now

 

[jcw427]

When installing the rear Wilwoods you have to open up your rearend, pull your axles, then you need to cut a 5/8" half moon into the front side of the axle flange. Then you mounts the backing plate/park brake assembly then reinstall the axles, put the radial brackets on (brutal pain in the a**) then install the caliper, brake lines and change the park brake cables. Took me a full day by the time mine where bleed, but I did all 4 corners

 

[UltraKla$$ic]

Yeah, but it's difficult to discriminate among technical badinage, persiflage, raillery, and trivial banter.

 

[phorty]

Talking about bleeding methods- I have a motive power bleeder that is easy to use. How would using that compare with doing the pressure bleeding? I'm about to do a 14" or 15" brembo upgrade on my 06 GT.

 

[DRock]

Anybody have any tips for bleeding these brembos or the brake systems in general on these cars? do I need to bleed the rears too when I just changed the fronts? thanks!

Your always on our cars (well on all cars) supposed to start at the back farthest away from the Master cylinder

so start with:

Rear passanger
rear driver
front passanger
front driver

In that exact order. You have air in the lines still try again.

 

[JAJ]

The Brembo's have two bleeders - inboard and outboard - the order according to Ford is:

Pax rear
Driver's rear
Pax inner until no bubbles
Pax outer until no bubbles
Pax inner (again) to make sure there are no bubbles
Driver's inner until no bubbles
Driver's outer until no bubbles
Driver's inner (again) to make sure there are no bubbles

 

[UltraKla$$ic]

The Brembo's have two bleeders - inboard and outboard - the order according to Ford is:

Pax rear
Driver's rear
Pax inner until no bubbles
Pax outer until no bubbles
Pax inner (again) to make sure there are no bubbles
Driver's inner until no bubbles
Driver's outer until no bubbles
Driver's inner (again) to make sure there are no bubbles

Thanks for this!

 

[kingnut]

good info