subject: Your Corvette Brakes Need Care [print this page] Your Corvette Brakes Need Care Your Corvette Brakes Need Care
The C6 is the sixth generation Corvette from a stable of Chevrolet Corvettes that made their beginning in the early 1950s. Today's C6 Corvette has an efficient engine of 6.2 L capacity that can create 400 bhp at about 6000 rpm. The bigger engines such as the 7 L engine could do a max speed of 205 mph! The standard engine can reach 60 mph in 4.2 sec. With such awesome power under its bonnet you can imagine the stresses the Corvette brakes would go through each day. When you go hell for leather on the race track and clock astronomical speeds your brakes work overtime too. This makes it mandatory for you to look after them during every routine servicing that you need to carry out besides keeping a close watch on their performance every time you take your Corvette out of the garage.
For routine maintenance of your Corvette brakes that you can carry out yourself you need to have sufficient stocks of the best grade of high temperature brake fluid. You may like to keep a bleeder tool too. This could be of the MaxPro or DIY+ quality. Should you need to change your brake pads it may be advisable to go for the Hawk HPS (Street) ceramic pads for the rear and the GM-OEM brake pads for the front. Ceramic brake pads create less build up of black dust on the wheels and therefore are recommended. These also have a long wear life.
If you are planning an upgrade of your Corvette brakes there are several high performance brake packages that you should take a closer look of. There's one that has 13"front Baer EradiSpeed cross drilled and slotted rotors and 12"rear Baer also EradiSpeed and cross drilled and slotted rotors. The package includes adequate high temperature brake fluid as well as DOT approved stainless steel brake lines. You could order the most efficient Corvette brake pad cover set that's in high polished stainless steel and the Corvette line lock kit besides the Corvette brake caliper cover set with 4 pc. There's one cover set that comes with the body color matched as well.
