I know a lot of people swap to them, but I was wondering how these compare to a baer or brembo set up that would be street worthy. I personaly have not driven a car with better brakes than my TTA's, even an LT4 Corvette, maybey it was because the Vette had ABS though.



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89 Trans Am Turbo 3.8L All stock 43,000 miles #1053 of 1555

Past Thirdgen:
86 Trans Am w/ built 355TPI with SLP goodies and too much other stuff to List. One sweet *** car, wish I would have had a good enough Job to pay insurance on three cars so I could keep it, but for a 89 Turbo Trans Am w/ Low miles, I think I made the right choice!

 

Nobody cares about the 1LE's huh?

 

I think the reason no one has answered is that people generally go to the 1LEs or Baer/Brembos from the STOCK front brakes. I don't personally know of anyone that has gone from 1LE to Baer/Brembo or vice versa, or even know anyone with both systems on separate cars.

I have 1LE's on my 84. I like them. Are they better than Brembo/Baer? I don't know. Probably not. But they are cheaper.


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'84 Black Camaro ZZ4 M5 (V-6 in a former life) -- street beast
'91 Medium Blue Metallic Z28 A4 (UB-HSTRY's old ride) -- currently broken
'99 Navy Blue Metallic Firehawk #120 M6 (99.44% stock) -- daily driver

 

If money is NO object. Then get the most expensive brakes you can find. But for the rest of us. 1LE is plenty. I know that my 1LE equipped car could not stop any better, with out a healthy increase in my tire budget.

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82Z 305 w/comp 270 magnum cam,Edelbrock Performer RPM,Holly 1850-4,serpentine belt drive.TH700R4 w/B&M holeshot 2000 converter,& megashifter.1LE front brakes, 9bolt 3.27 w/1LE rear brakes.Aluminum driveshaft,boxed rear susp.poly everything,IROC swaybar+wonderbar. 70mph@2200rpm ASE Master Tech plus L2
also recently obtained a
'69 chevelle SS396 w/Turbo 400,3.31 posi,11.0 to 1, headers,etc. Latest project car,'86 IROC stock 305TPI hit on left side,but not too bad

 

I like the swap but not the increase in unsprung weight of those 12inch rotors- I'd realy like to replace those 1le rotors with billet aluminum rotor hubs and a bolt on brake rotor.

 

The 1LE brakes are great, and have more than enough stopping power for our non-ABS third-gens, especially with race pads. See what happened when I slammed on the brakes (with race pads) at 115 mph last year:

http://users.erols.com/gcwestph/Pictures.html

It's the last picture on the page.

As far as unsprung weight, I know the aluminum 1LE caliper is quite a bit lighter than the stock iron caliper, so the overall weights are pretty close. Considering that the spindles are lighter (a section of them is cut off), the 1LE's might even be lighter.

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Greg Westphal
'87 IROC 305TPI/A4

 

Like I said,"if money is no object,then just get only the best". But most of us(including me) simply can't afford it. I would love a set of 6 piston Bremo's w/carbon rotors. But it's that darn $$$ thing again.

 

Dude, your TTA has 1LE brakes already. Didn't you know that?

 

Aren't the 1LE front calipers on these 3rd Gen cars still a single piston style?

 

reply to post above /\

the front 1le calipers are a dual piston caliper and the rear is a single psiton, however they are made out of aluminum, and have bigger rotors on the front...

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87 IROC-z 305 TPI 5spd Borg warner 9-bolt 3.45 posi 4 wheel disc,8.8 Accel wires , bosch platinum +4 plugs,gutted air box,TB coolant bypass ,polyurethane tranny and torque arm mounts, k&n oil filter,synthetic oil 10w30, futura GLS super sport tires 265/50/15 rear and 235/60/15 front mounted on 86 monte carlo SS rims ,

400 sbc and a 6 spd in the works

 

I race a 1LE Camaro with the SCCA and still have the stock 1LE setup. Most of my competetors run a seperate hat/rotor set up or the Baer setup. There is not a big difference in breaking ability. The difference is in weight. The Baer and the sepearate rotor/hat combo weighs roughly 10ibs less per wheel. I run the stock 1LE setup as its half the cost.

 

wow.. I didn't know the TTA had 1LE!!! kewl... learned a new thang today.

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only 10lbs - I think they start at $499 a set- well my decision's made

 

Yea I knew that I was just thinking that I might eventually upgrade to something else, but from the concenous here I think they are good enough for anything I will ever do with the car.

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89 Trans Am Turbo 3.8L All stock 43,000 miles #1053 of 1555

Past Thirdgen:
86 Trans Am w/ built 355TPI with SLP goodies and too much other stuff to List. One sweet *** car, wish I would have had a good enough Job to pay insurance on three cars so I could keep it, but for a 89 Turbo Trans Am w/ Low miles, I think I made the right choice!