Are the Dual Piston Rear Calipers noticeably better?

[tinkersmithinc]

At least you’ve got the option with the 18’s to add C7 non-Z51 Calipers (Part Numbers) with adapters. You’d also still be able to install x drilled & slotted OE rotors with the C7 kit.

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I saw those, and I know there's a small company who sells conversion kits, but I guess what you're saying is that we can fabricate, retrofit it ourselves?

And how would that work differently for the front and rear? Apologies if I missed an explanation of this somewhere else!

 

[tinkersmithinc]

Correcting myself: I just realized they have 2 products, one bracket for the proper 6 piston caliper upgrade for the front (minimum 20" wheels), and the other bracket for the 4 piston upgrade for the rear (minimum 18" wheels). And exclusively for a limited set of donor corvette and cadillac calipers. Obviously this would save money if you didn't wanna buy thousands worth calipers and have a donor at home. I don't know how I feel about diy fabrication of those, unless you're a decent machinist with a decent mill?

Just to avoid confusing anybody else reading these forums, these brackets are exclusively for using those particular Corvette and Cadillac donor calipers, and have nothing to do with any ot hg er rotor+caliper set you may buy for aftermarket brake upgrade (from $400ish amazon sets to $3k wilwood sets): those sets would be simple bolt on parts (apart from exceptional minor grinding for some wheels), so far as you get the right rotors and pads.

 

[tinkersmithinc]

Thanks Pete, as this most definitely qualifies as bang for the buck! But I just went from a 20" +18, to a 17" +18 wheel for better Off-Road performance :-/
I will most definitely make certain there's no way to pull this off? But at a glance, it doesn't look do-able?
It's never easy to have your cake and eat it too lol

If this is not an option, is there another bolt on solution out there that you know of?

[I promise Im not being lazy, there are a few subjects on here that now have so much info that it becomes a matter of having the time to read through all the posts to be able to get the pertinent facts (which is not a bad thing, except for the amount of time it takes). Right now in my life Ive only got a few minutes a day free to do things like this and Im doing my best to spread them around the activities Im involved in lol]

And if that solution is ordering 4 or 6 piston calipers and fabricating my own brackets?? Then thats what it is.... My goal here, as with all my modifications, is to increase the performance, but do so on a moderate budget. Similar to the long travel control arms, I don't believe in paying someone for something I can do myself....

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In case you didn't come back to this thread, 18" wheels work fine with 4 piston 2019+ front GM calipers: parts no 13545382 and 13545383. There are even very cheap aftermarket versions on amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Compatible-Chevrolet-Silverado-2019-2020/dp/B0CDKG23KN