Really depends a lot on the look you are after Mike. Since I like old timey looking cars, I always use the old standby, 40-48 Ford brakes with Buick drums. Dan is going to use the Wilson Welding '39 Lincoln front brakes on his '29 and they offer some real advantages like modern components and being self energizing.

As for stopping power, some will dispute this, but my old Ford brakes stop on the proverbial dime. Maybe the fact that the cars are light have something to do with it, or maybe that I have all new components and have them adjusted right enters into it, but they do. They take very little pedal pressure, and if I really need to stop they do it like right now.

We recently removed the GM discs from Don's T and replaced them with the Wilwood discs, and that made a tremendous difference in the handling of his car. The GM discs seemed to have a little more stopping power, but weighed like 3 times as much. I think all that weight on the front end was too much rotating mass and was contributing to the death wobble problem he was having. Total Performance told us we wouldn't like the GM brakes, and they were right. I know lots of guys run them and have good luck, but we didn't.

The only thing Don noticed is that the car now wants to pull through a red light when sitting there with it in gear. It could be his radical cam and not enough torque convertor (we have to pull the tranny out to go back to TCI so we may bump up from 2800 to 3200 while we are at it) The GM discs seemed to hold it ok, but the Wilwoods don't seem to have that same ability. The Wilwoods do look a lot cleaner and weigh hardly anything at all, so unsprung weight is way down. They also narrowed his front track by about one inch per side.

Hope this info helps you make a decision.

Don