Brake guru's, I need some advice
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Safety Car
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From: Cape Coral FL
Brake guru's, I need some advice
I have been thinking of upgrading my braking. I now have stock calipers with EBC Green Stuff pads and Goodridge SS brake lines. I am liking the Wilwood SL6 and SL4 setup with 13" rotors. I want to use the car for street use (cruising), drag racing, and want to get into autoX and maybe even some HPDE. I have 04 Z06 Speedlines with Pilot Sports and a CCW Drag setup. The car is lowered a bit, ~1", and is running FE4 suspension parts with QA1 shocks.
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My questions are:
1) Will this brake package work with the above setups?
2) Any direct experience with this brake package?
3) I would like to put in a brake bias valve for tuning the rear brakes for street, drag, and road course. Is this doable?
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My questions are:
1) Will this brake package work with the above setups?
2) Any direct experience with this brake package?
3) I would like to put in a brake bias valve for tuning the rear brakes for street, drag, and road course. Is this doable?
Last edited by ArKay99; Jan 23, 2007 at 11:11 PM.
Team Owner
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From: Raleigh / Rolesville NC
You may need to put on longer studs and a wheel spacer too allow your current wheels to fit over the calipers.
Yes putting in a brake bias valve is possible. I belive Wilwood also makes these.
Racer
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From: Auburn AL
I recently upgraded to this exact package. I have the stock speedline 17"s in front so I ordered the 13" kit all the way around. I ordered the 13" rear kit so I could keep the 17" drag radials I have.
I installed the kit myself without problems. I have not tracked the car yet so all I can comment on is some decels from high speed on the interstate. The brakes bite hard. I have done some spirited driving on some curvy lake roads and I didn't feel any sign of fade. I also upgraded to the wilwood stainless lines when I did the job.
The brake job went very smoothly until I cross threaded a caliper stud. I had to get one from wilwood but no big deal. One tool that I needed that I didn't have was a deep-well 7/16 twelve point. It is a socket that doesn't come with most of the craftsman sets. Just a minor setback. After all is said and done the brakes look and work very well.
Give Tbyrne a call and they will hook you up. They were running a special about a month before Christmas and I think they are still running that special. It was about 3200 shipped to my door with the red powdercoat. I would definately go with the Wilwoods on my next project.
Greg
I installed the kit myself without problems. I have not tracked the car yet so all I can comment on is some decels from high speed on the interstate. The brakes bite hard. I have done some spirited driving on some curvy lake roads and I didn't feel any sign of fade. I also upgraded to the wilwood stainless lines when I did the job.
The brake job went very smoothly until I cross threaded a caliper stud. I had to get one from wilwood but no big deal. One tool that I needed that I didn't have was a deep-well 7/16 twelve point. It is a socket that doesn't come with most of the craftsman sets. Just a minor setback. After all is said and done the brakes look and work very well.
Give Tbyrne a call and they will hook you up. They were running a special about a month before Christmas and I think they are still running that special. It was about 3200 shipped to my door with the red powdercoat. I would definately go with the Wilwoods on my next project.
Greg
Racer
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From: Albany NY
The route I went is: SS lines, OEM rotors, nice pads, and the ticket is Superblue brake fluid and paint the calipers red.
Before this I had fade on stock set up slowing down from 150 to 70. After the change I was able slow from 130 to 0 without a hint of strain!
Before this I had fade on stock set up slowing down from 150 to 70. After the change I was able slow from 130 to 0 without a hint of strain!
