Chickenhawk
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- Dec 6, 2011
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Well, you know how anal I am about brakes, so I will weigh in. In my opinion, Brembos will look cool and you can maybe stuff a few mm more diameter rotor under there, but at the end of the day you are spending a lot of money for looks and won't realize any difference in performance unless you are on the race track. I just looked up the test results from the MSP police vehicles test for 2011 and the Caprice beat every other other car in testing that year. Even by 2014, when Dodge vastly improved their braking performance, the Caprice was only a few fractions off the number one mark.
Tastes differ of course but if it was me, I would paint the calipers with aluminum-color caliper paint and get custom lettering in black that says Caprice PPV. Keep good pads on it and the stock brakes will outbrake nearly everything else in its class on the road.
Even though it doesn't make sense, brake feel is actually a function of the pad more than almost any other single factor. The best feel, initial cold bite, stopping power and minimal noise and dust is with the OEM pads. Everything else is a compromise. Pads with slightly better stopping, will dust like crazy. Pads with very long service life will not stop as fast. High-performance semi-mettllic pads made for the race track will often dust AND squeal.
My favorite pad next to OEM is Napa's Adaptive One brake pad. This is the one that uses the NRS backing plate technology, and having one set of aftermarket pads peel away from the backing plate, I love the idea of this backing plate technology.
Tastes differ of course but if it was me, I would paint the calipers with aluminum-color caliper paint and get custom lettering in black that says Caprice PPV. Keep good pads on it and the stock brakes will outbrake nearly everything else in its class on the road.
Even though it doesn't make sense, brake feel is actually a function of the pad more than almost any other single factor. The best feel, initial cold bite, stopping power and minimal noise and dust is with the OEM pads. Everything else is a compromise. Pads with slightly better stopping, will dust like crazy. Pads with very long service life will not stop as fast. High-performance semi-mettllic pads made for the race track will often dust AND squeal.
My favorite pad next to OEM is Napa's Adaptive One brake pad. This is the one that uses the NRS backing plate technology, and having one set of aftermarket pads peel away from the backing plate, I love the idea of this backing plate technology.