C5 brake upgrade

Hello,
I did a search and really came up with nothing.
I am going to be putting a 12bolt in and ditching my rear drums.

I realize that doing the conversion I might as well do both sets of brakes at once. I know these are a great upgrade and are pretty reasonably priced. Has anyone done this swap before
I found a GREAT deal on calipers and Rotors, just wondering what else I am going to need.

Again tried a search, to no evail.
Thanks for your help
-AJ

[DETROITMUSCLE]

I have some corvette rear rotors if you want em.

[sweet_87_iroc]

Check out this website

http://www.flynbye.com/index.html

I am also about to upgrade my iroc with c5 brakes. Contact the owner of the site Eb miller. He was a great help to me!

[BMT59]

I just finished a C5 front swap. The adapter brackets are available from a couple different places - Ed Miller, KORE3, or www.engineeredvelocity.com which is where I got mine. He usually has a set on ebay for around $50, but they don't come with hardware.

If you have the calipers, then you basically just need the brackets and misc hardware. 7/16" bolts attach the adapter bracket to the spindle (after you drill and tap the two splash shield bolt holes), and M14 bolts to hold the caliper bracket to the adapter bracket. You'll need longer wheel studs - the exact part number varies depending on what rotors you use (OEM or aftermarket replacements) to make your hubs because the knurl diameter is different. KORE3 also makes aluminum hubs that can be used. Your stock brake lines will work but you need C4/C5 Corvette banjo bolts.

You may or may not need a new master cylinder and proportioning valve. That will depend on your choice of rear brakes and what kind of brake pedal feel you want. I'm using the stock '84 4-wheel disk master and prop valve and it works fine.

The old:


The new:

[86iroc305]

if your upgrading the rear, all gm use the same 4 bolt flange in the rear, so its common to go to a ls1 rear brake setup, use the backing plates and all bolt right up to the 12 bolt, but in the front you modify the kuckles by cutting off the "ears" and then removing the dust shield and drilling and tapping the 2 dust sheild holes for bigger bolts for the new caliper bracket to bolt the c5 caliper and abundment to, i run the c5 abunment and ls1 camaro caliper body (something about a caliper that says corvette one a camaro )