I finished up my C5 brake conversion tonight. I also took care of a bunch of other maintenance while I had the car in the air. I changed the rear wheel bearings and halfshaft u-joints and also pulled the radiator and cleaned out all the crap (it's never been out of the car before).

What an amazing difference. The new parts make the car feel at least 10 years younger. I was having problems with driveline slop and a resistance/hesitation when I would accelerate hard that felt like a slipping clutch -- that's all gone now.

The brakes turned out fabulous. I bead blasted the front and rear calipers and brackets and painted them red/black. I took some pics that I'll post up later. I'm using stock 89 wheels, and I had to use 1/8" spacers so the calipers would clear. I've only driven the car a few miles and haven't bedded in the brakes yet, but my pedal effort is much reduced even just putting around town. I used Hawk HPS pads and changed the bias spring, and the braking seems to be quite aggressive even under a light apply. I'm very curious to see how this compares to my original J55 brakes.

BTW -- if you haven't ever cleaned out the area in front of the radiator, I highly suggest you consider doing it. I had a pile of leaves at least 6" deep. Contained in that pile were 3 plastic Wal-Mart bags and a dead mouse! I have no idea how the mouse got in there, but fortunately he didn't do any damage to the car.

 

Thats lots of work.

 

Glad to hear everything turned out good. I just received my c5 calipers today and will start the conversion soon.