New owner of a 2014 Summit Diesel. I've been reading up on the SRT8 Brembo brake upgrade and I am considering to to this.
What wheel offset would i need to clear the brembo brakes? I'm looking at the 20x9 wheel size in Black color in multi-spoked pattern, not the thick 5 spoke pattern.
Here is a set of wheels i found on Ebay. Would this offset of +37 work?
Why not scott? I was planning on doing the same as Lateral so im bumping for interest. and also, $775.00+free shipping is a great price for those rims!!
Other than a big hole in your checking account what do you hope to gain by going with the Brembo SRT 8 upgrade? Why do you feel you need these brakes? Do you really like the cute red calipers that much Brembo stuff is way overpriced. You really dont need drilled rotors. Earl's brake lines, a good high performance street brake pad and a brake fluid with a high wet boiling point will give 90%+ of Brembo performance at a significantly reduced cost. Check out other similar systems from Baer etc.
Other than a big hole in your checking account what do you hope to gain by going with the Brembo SRT 8 upgrade? Why do you feel you need these brakes? Do you really like the cute red calipers that much Brembo stuff is way overpriced. You really dont need drilled rotors. Earl's brake lines, a good high performance street brake pad and a brake fluid with a high wet boiling point will give 90%+ of Brembo performance at a significantly reduced cost. Check out other similar systems from Baer etc.
Are you kidding?
He gains 6 piston calipers up front with 4 piston calipers out back, all with much larger rotors to dissipate heat.
No way any pad upgrade/brake line upgrade for the stock 2 piston calipers is going to come anywhere near the performance.
The fact that they just bolt on without suspension modifications or needing brackets makes them a great bang for the buck mod!
the major problem wit the stock nonSRt brakes is overheating and brake fade. I tested the stock brakes with stock pads and stock brakes with aftermarket pads on my 2011 Durango. BOTH suffered severely from brake fade after two hard stops. Stops got progressively longer and less steady with each braking. IMHO if you do a lot of stop and go driving, mountain driving, towing or just spirited sunday drives.....the brembo upgrade is a SAFE and relatively CHEAP upgrade. The front 6 piston brembo calipers are less than $600 for BOTH on some mopar parts sites and you can get aftermarket rotors and pads for about $400. That's $1000 for HUGE 6 piston brembos on the front! Same prices for the rear. I think its the best bang for buck brake upgrade available. ALL the BBK upgrade kits are like $6000....LOL. That's nuts.
and I would take my chances with the EXTRA 8 ft. LOL
There are plenty of us SUV owners who actually tow. Larger brakes with much better fade resistance gives you much higher safety margins.
It would be a no-brainer to me, and that's not going into how much better it would be to regulate the brakes in an emergency stop.
IMO, this is a more worthwhile upgrade for $1K than spending $2K on the tech group and its electronic nannies warning me of a crash.
if anyone gets back on topic, i'm actually shopping around for some replica rims for some winter tires come next year. any idea if they have some slimmer rims that would clear the brembos?
i haven't got the chance to install my brembo on my durango(even heavier when the wk2) but i think of it purely as a safety upgrade more then anything. The Hemi encourages spirited driving for sure. Under 3k for a full brembo setup is great anyday of the week
I just got done installing Brembo's on my diesel Limited the other day...
For guys against them don't forget the Brembo's are a fixed caliper, as opposed to the stock floating caliper type. Fixed is a better and more powerful, yet more costly design, but it provides better pedal feel, as well as more even brake pad wear, because pressure is applied evenly via pistons on each side of the rotor, whereas a floating caliper the piston side pad hits the rotor first, then pulls the caliper over and hits the outside pad. No, pad wear asymmetry doesn't really matter, but having pistons on both sides press the rotor gives them more clamping power and it is applied more evenly than a floating caliper. That's why fast and high end cars use fixed calipers; because they stop and feel better.
I'll be the first to admit I don't need Brembo's on my truck, hell SRT's don't even need them either. Unless you drive on a track or drive like a reckless jackass on public roads no car needs them. But there's no way some braided brake line and fluid upgrades on a floating (stock) caliper brake system can touch a high end multi-piston fixed caliper design, I don't care what you think that's fact.
And like was mentioned these are a great bang for the buck upgrade when on any other car they are many thousands of dollars. I figured what other car would I have that I could get them for this cost
And yeah, I really do like the "cute red calipers" that much
Plus you have to put larger wheels on which in turn requires larger tires, which has a larger footprint to take advantage of the additional braking ability the Brembo brakes provide.
I think OE Wheels LLC posted here that the replicas gen2 SRT wheels dont fit the SRT because of the calipers. Are they gen2 srt replicas(spydermonkeys?)
Yes actually they state that their replica 20x10 will fit. Looks like I will need new tires now lol or try to squeeze into the stockers and end up looking like those rice mobiles out there. LOL
I have the chrome Version of these knock off SRT wheels in 20x10 with 295/50/20 tires...they fit just fine ...I bought them off Ebay as well...
Overall they are pretty decent quality for the price...I bought the complete package with the Toyo Proxes STII 295/50/20 tires and they sent me the wrong TPMS sensors...so if you get them just MAKE sure you get the right ones...
I had to buy a set of OEM sensors and then pay 100$ to have them mounted...
I have the chrome Version of these knock off SRT wheels in 20x10 with 295/50/20 tires...they fit just fine ...I bought them off Ebay as well...
Overall they are pretty decent quality for the price...I bought the complete package with the Toyo Proxes STII 295/50/20 tires and they sent me the wrong TPMS sensors...so if you get them just MAKE sure you get the right ones...
I had to buy a set of OEM sensors and then pay 100$ to have them mounted...
Shoestring what parts did you have to purchase for the Brembo's? I need new brakes on my 2012 Altitude 5.7 with 20" wheels. From what I'm reading my rims won't work with the Brembo and its because of the width of the rim? I'm looking at piecing parts vs buying a kit for the prices listed above. I'm not a mechanic by any means but break jobs look fairly easy or I have a shop who can do it. Ideally I'm thinking calipers, rotors, and pads only.
Shoestring what parts did you have to purchase for the Brembo's? I need new brakes on my 2012 Altitude 5.7 with 20" wheels. From what I'm reading my rims won't work with the Brembo and its because of the width of the rim? I'm looking at piecing parts vs buying a kit for the prices listed above. I'm not a mechanic by any means but break jobs look fairly easy or I have a shop who can do it. Ideally I'm thinking calipers, rotors, and pads only.
Double check - please - are these 295/50/20 tires on the SRT Replica Rims or 295/45-20 (stock SRT size)?
I want to try 295/50-20s. I cannot tell from the Pics are they are a little dark.
Thanks.
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