tks
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| posted on 12/9/05 at 07:25 PM |
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Brakes Question Wilwood Kit
Hi here i'm again after the holiday and now a on a new job. the only bloudy thing its for 50hours an week!
Well. At least its at an stainless steel construction comp.
Here we go!
First I brought the wilwood kit form rally desing, and in the kit wasn't an build description. Sow i ahev a question what to do with 4 washers
(there where 8 Bolts) and 8 washer and 4 nuts.
The calipers goes on an alu block (threaded) but the allen bolts go in the caliper sow the washer cant be over there. use one behind the nut ( sow
i'm sitting with 4 left any one knows?
Then 2nd question on the kit is putted eveywhere its only for race use?
does this mean no one over here have passed SVS with them on? regards,
Tks..
p.d. racing standards aren't they higher than street ones??
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desyboy
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| posted on 12/9/05 at 08:48 PM |
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willwoods
i heard that the disk doesnt run central through the caliper and you have to space the disk out , either with washers or a steel plate with all the
holes machined in it . and that supposedly came from rally design
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the_fbi
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| posted on 12/9/05 at 10:51 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by tks
Then 2nd question on the kit is putted eveywhere its only for race use?
does this mean no one over here have passed SVS with them on? regards,
Tks..
p.d. racing standards aren't they higher than street ones??
Race use only usually means they don't have dust seals around the pistons on the calipers.
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Bob C
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| posted on 13/9/05 at 09:43 AM |
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1) washers are probably to space caliper out to be central on disc
2) wilwoods disclaimer on everything "not for street use": I looked into this when I got some gear from them. Their reply was that as they
had no control over the engineering of the target system or whether the customer had selected a suitable caliper for their application, they (wilwood)
had to protect themselves from litigation in case of brake failure on the road. Regarding the dust seals issue they said they recommended cleaning the
pistons before pushing them back in when changing pads, but I can't find anything about that on their website.
I posted a copy of theur email a few months ago but it's a very old thread - might be traceable if you search for subject *disclaimer*
cheers
Bob
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tks
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| posted on 13/9/05 at 12:08 PM |
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mhhh
mhhh
well
when i now look at my settup
the inner brake pad is touching the disk an bit (like always) but offcourse its still empty (the caliper).
When it will have run an bit the pads will anyway slide in in the best way....
i also want to say that if the disc is right (3D plane comparison) and the alu bar.
then everything should be ok because the left side of the Hub is also machined...
standard.
when i look at my pad (the inner one) i also see the disc touching it on the hole diameter/touching area..
sow think it will be good!
p.d. its from rally design... they do always just enough..and i hate that an bit but ok...
New Question:
what thread is in the caliper? 4 piston..powerlite
any one ideas?
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Paul (Notts)
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| posted on 13/9/05 at 08:10 PM |
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Wilwood powerlite callipers
Just fitted one of the Powerlite callipers onto a sierra front hub.
It came as a kit with bracket and discs..
The disc is clearly not central in the calliper and it looks like I will need to make a spacer to move the disc about 1mm away from the hub.
As it was sold as a kit to fit sierra uprights I am not happy....
Esp. if this seems to be a known fact about the callipers...
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tks
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| posted on 14/9/05 at 06:19 PM |
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not cental ok
its true that theya aren't central in the caliper
but in fact that's not an big problem..
as long as de pads are pushing on the discs with the surface they have.....
its also no problem if one piston (or 2) go more out as the other...
it will balance it self..
Tks
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