FS: Wilwood 14" front/13" rear Big Brake kit
03-26-2009, 08:48 AM
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Don't post comments speculating about my brakes if you don't have them!
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1. This kit uses the STOCK rear calipers, and mounts them on a NEW offset bracket using special 13" rotors on aluminum hats. The e-brake works fine. No one, Brembo included, makes an aluminum caliper upgrade for the rear of the RX-8, due to our e-brake cable setup.
I feel like I'm hawking drugs out of the trunk here already!
2. If you jump to 14" rotors and 4-piston calipers in the front w/o upgrading the rear you WILL cause the anti-lock system to activate sooner, increasing your stopping distances.
3. The fronts use Wilwood SL-4 calipers which have stainless steel pistons and dust seals. They'll probably outlast your engine!
4. They use Wilwood pads in the front, or any number of replacement pads for the Wilwood SL-4 caliper.
5. The rears use your STOCK calipers, and if YOUR pads are worn out, I would recommend replacing them.
6. The front and rear rotors on this kit are lightly used, but really have almost no grooving. That's because the slot patter wipes dust and rocks away which whould ordinarily hang in a brak pad and cause gouges in the rotor surface. I drive between 500 and 600 miles at a time in the car, on the freeways in LA. I've only put between 12k and 15k on this kit since it was installed.
7. One of the front hats was anodized, instead of powder-coated (older MFG process for Wilwood) and has faded slightly. The other 3 hats are powder-coated semi-gloss black.
8. One of the rear rotors has a slight high spot in it. This causes a slight "surge" when braking. It is so slight that I haven't done anything to correct it. I do not know if the rotor could be recut on a brake lathe due to the slots. It might be fixable that way. A replacement rotor should be available from Todd Cook at TCE Performance Products in Phoenix, AZ. His website is down for some reason right now. His number is 480-967-7901.
9. There is one nick in the red finish on the right front caliper, wher a wheel slipped as I was swapping out to stock wheels. Red touch up lacquer is available from Wilwood directly.
10. I'm not accepting PayPal on this because they take too much damn money. I do sell stuff on eBay all the time (guitar stuff) and you can check out my 100% positive feedback on there as 'porschemunkey' (old name).
11. I'm NOT paying for the shipping on these. That means if you live on the East Coast, it'll probably cost a bundle to ship everthing.
12. No, I don't know the shipping weight yet. I don't even know the number of boxes it's going to take yet.
Finally, here are some photos from BEFORE the kit was installed. The rotors pictured are the rear rotors. I figure you can tell the difference between 13" and 14" front rotors, right?
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
1. This kit uses the STOCK rear calipers, and mounts them on a NEW offset bracket using special 13" rotors on aluminum hats. The e-brake works fine. No one, Brembo included, makes an aluminum caliper upgrade for the rear of the RX-8, due to our e-brake cable setup.
I feel like I'm hawking drugs out of the trunk here already!
2. If you jump to 14" rotors and 4-piston calipers in the front w/o upgrading the rear you WILL cause the anti-lock system to activate sooner, increasing your stopping distances.
3. The fronts use Wilwood SL-4 calipers which have stainless steel pistons and dust seals. They'll probably outlast your engine!
4. They use Wilwood pads in the front, or any number of replacement pads for the Wilwood SL-4 caliper.
5. The rears use your STOCK calipers, and if YOUR pads are worn out, I would recommend replacing them.
6. The front and rear rotors on this kit are lightly used, but really have almost no grooving. That's because the slot patter wipes dust and rocks away which whould ordinarily hang in a brak pad and cause gouges in the rotor surface. I drive between 500 and 600 miles at a time in the car, on the freeways in LA. I've only put between 12k and 15k on this kit since it was installed.
7. One of the front hats was anodized, instead of powder-coated (older MFG process for Wilwood) and has faded slightly. The other 3 hats are powder-coated semi-gloss black.
8. One of the rear rotors has a slight high spot in it. This causes a slight "surge" when braking. It is so slight that I haven't done anything to correct it. I do not know if the rotor could be recut on a brake lathe due to the slots. It might be fixable that way. A replacement rotor should be available from Todd Cook at TCE Performance Products in Phoenix, AZ. His website is down for some reason right now. His number is 480-967-7901.
9. There is one nick in the red finish on the right front caliper, wher a wheel slipped as I was swapping out to stock wheels. Red touch up lacquer is available from Wilwood directly.
10. I'm not accepting PayPal on this because they take too much damn money. I do sell stuff on eBay all the time (guitar stuff) and you can check out my 100% positive feedback on there as 'porschemunkey' (old name).
11. I'm NOT paying for the shipping on these. That means if you live on the East Coast, it'll probably cost a bundle to ship everthing.
12. No, I don't know the shipping weight yet. I don't even know the number of boxes it's going to take yet.
Finally, here are some photos from BEFORE the kit was installed. The rotors pictured are the rear rotors. I figure you can tell the difference between 13" and 14" front rotors, right?
03-26-2009, 08:51 AM
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can we say DRIFT!
03-26-2009, 09:33 AM
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more photos, on the car
More details, the rotors front and rear have been zinc-dipped (plated) so that, except where the pads touch, they don't rust. Wilwood does this on all their rotors so Todd had the rear done the same way. Nice, eh?
More details, the rotors front and rear have been zinc-dipped (plated) so that, except where the pads touch, they don't rust. Wilwood does this on all their rotors so Todd had the rear done the same way. Nice, eh?
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