brake upgrade experience?

[chance91]

Has anyone tried to upgrade brakes on their montana? Having a bit of a long stretch when braking with a lot of stuff in this baby and looking for a simple solution. I am really pretty certain that the wbody kit will work and I am gonna try it but I figured someone already may have.

http://www.wbodystore.com/W-Body-Store-12-Inch-Dual-Piston-Brake-Kit-p-82.html

The whole front is the same as any wbody buick, grand am\prix, impala, etc. So this or the 2c package on the impala should work just fine. This uses a caliper from a firebird or camaro that is dual piston and aluminum, which should be easy to source from ebay\jys.

The rear I wanna go disc for convinence reasons, not sure yet other than maybe saturn parts would work.

 

[melsg5]

I dont follow your logic. Why would you think a caliper kit for a Impala or Monte Carlo would fit a Montana?

 

[Roadrunner]

why not first start with your suspension..that will help your stopping distance by alot

 

[chance91]

why not first start with your suspension..that will help your stopping distance by alot

Its all new. KYB stuff all around.

Yes, I am assuming that a caliper kit for an impala/monte carlo will fit the montana, as the caliper kit for the impala/monte carlo can use corvette calipers, firebird/camaro calipers, and will fit on a buick century, an oldsmobile intrigue, an oldsmobile alero, a chevy cavalier, a pontiac grand prix, and a few other cars, so long as they are N, J, or W body. W bodies are direct swap, except for resizing two bolt holes per side, N body are a direct swap, and a J-body needs the hub and outer CV joint from an N body swapped on.

The front end of the Montana/Silhouette/Venture can actually be removed and a Grand prix/w-body chassis car's front can be swapped in. Meaning you can unbolt the cv's, the subframe mounts, and suspension from the strut towers, and plop it right into the montana from another w-body car.

So one can assume that it is pretty well identical up front. As well, the strut assemblies are the same, aside from different dampening ratios due to weight differences. The GM parts bin the more you look is a few parts with many numbers on them and very slight differences.

Either way, I'm fairly certain this will work, 75$ isn't that big of a risk anyway.

The next best thing I suppose would to be to get some heavier springs all around as the OEM weight ones are pretty much garbage..