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Brake Upgrades? What's the best rotor, caliper, pad route? What about drums?

Discussion in '5 Lug' started by apbright, Nov 21, 2024.

  1. Nov 21, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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    apbright

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    Lifting my truck soon and I wanna upgrade the brakes as much as possible if there's a better option than OEM. I know OEM lasts a while, but if there's better, please let me know.
     
  2. Nov 22, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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    Depending on what your wheels will be there are brackets made to swap LS460 calipers and IS-F rotors in the front. Does usually require 18" wheels to do it though.
     
  3. Nov 22, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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    Ideally thinking I'm going to go with a 16" wheel
     
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    Best caliber is .45, the lord's caliber.
     
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    LOL I just realized my typo. jesus
     
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    :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
     
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    Definitely can't do the bigger brake upgrade with 16's. Look into pads with some more bite, they'll wear faster but sill stop you better. Possibly upgrade to stainless lines but I don't feel they made much of a difference when I swapped mine over.
     
  8. Nov 22, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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    Gotcha, yeah I wasnt looking for bigger, was just looking for better at the same size if thats even possible lol
     
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    Let us not forget John Moses Brownings contribution for the ideal delivery method of said caliber, the 1911.

    In a way, it too is a braking system. It will stop you.
     
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    LCE has drilled and slotted rotors for our 5 lugs, 300 bucks i think for a pair. and they and they also have a xrunner rear break kit that you can use with a 16 inch wheel. pretty pricey at 1800 if i remember correctly. im not sure if it only fits an x runner or if it fits all 5 lugs? but thats what im planning on doing eventually
     
  11. Dec 7, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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    Scrubbed some tires, and knocked a dent out.
    Not to get into a debate, but you should in fact give the devil his due. 9mm for the win!
     
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    Different tools for different jobs. 9 is great because it gets most jobs done and is cheap to shoot but if I'm in bear country I'm not confident in it stopping a big black bear.
     

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