[GTOLou]

76 TA - I need to re-do my front brakes. Have recently done the rear drums w/ aluminum drums..

Planning on new rotors/rubber-banjo lines/pads and likely new calipers anyway. Rotors will be stock size, but I'll buy decent aftermarket ones..

Think these two piston SSBC/Summit aluminum calipers are an improvement over stock?

Cant' believe the weight savings is that big of a deal..just want it to stop well and still use my 15x8 snowflakes...

[70455HOVert]

I looked at these...the two pistions together have less piston area than the single D52 caliper, which will result in less force on the rotor, the bodies may be stiffer though, which would be a good thing...and I'm told that one might experience better pedal modulation or brake feel.

To keep your snowflakes, and improve braking, you need a bigger rotor, up to a 12", so that means a 1LE conversion.

[moparcolt]

If the piston area is smaller wouldn't that mean same pedal movement would move them fartherresulting in more even pressure.

[70455HOVert]

No, because that's spread out by the pad area. You need a larger piston area, or more swept area on a rotor, or if all that is held equal, you need to remove caliper flex, or flex in the rubber lines or put a pad compound on with a higher coefficient of friction in order gain braking force. All of this is moot if the car will currently lock the brakes, because that means your tires aren't sticky enough. There's a huge brake design article that I posted here and on pro-touring that explains it all. I had to read it because I was getting confused as to which components would actually help. I was getting ready to drop a lot of coin, but I realized that unless I was going to 17 or 18" wheels so that I could get 13 or 14" rotors, I wasn't going to realize much of a gain.