I like the way you messured the rotor, very sicentific if I say my self. But why the price drop of $300? Are you selling that many or trying to get people to buy them? If I had the money to spend I would buy at least the UD and the 11.75 brakes (they do fit 16" rims right?) from you.
I like the way you messured the rotor, very sicentific if I say my self. But why the price drop of $300? Are you selling that many or trying to get people to buy them? If I had the money to spend I would buy at least the UD and the 11.75 brakes (they do fit 16" rims right?) from you.
hahah. Well usually people put a CD in the pic to give you an idea how big it is so I though I'd just throw that in.
Turned out costing alot less to make the kit because some kit from a honda ended up fitting with little work instead of doing all custom work.
Actually I was told the 12.2" will fit nearly all 16" wheels and the 11.75" will fit a few 15" wheels. I'm going to test fit my track wheels (rota slipstreams16x7" +40mm offset) once the brakes are on.
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Originally Posted by ligerx
where did you get you big brake kit from
It's a custom kit using wilwood calipers, rotors, and caliper brackets.... and pads. Actually its a custom kit using wilwood everything. You can choose from different pads though. I can't remember who makes the lines but they appear to be of the best quality.
ahh crap. The guy forgot to switch out one peice and the brakes are the wrong bolt pattern. Will be getting the right one Monday.
But the new big brake rotors are almost half the weight of stock so i don't think there will be any power lost. They still are bigger though. Also the calipers seam to be much lighter as well.
If you're really into drag racing the smallest kit wouldn't be a bad idea. Actually though the smallest kit had different rotors so they may not be lighter.
ahh crap. The guy forgot to switch out one peice and the brakes are the wrong bolt pattern. Will be getting the right one Monday.
But the new big brake rotors are almost half the weight of stock so i don't think there will be any power lost. They still are bigger though. Also the calipers seam to be much lighter as well.
If you're really into drag racing the smallest kit wouldn't be a bad idea. Actually though the smallest kit had different rotors so they may not be lighter.
I thought both rotors came from the same materail and kit? So why is the smaller one heavier than the big one? I am just asking becuase I am more interested in the smaller one as I don't plan on putting in that much power into my car. But I hope both brakes weight less than the stock ones as that would be a good thing to knock off some weight.
On a side note from what I have seen it seem that to improve the cars overall proformace, we just need to replace stock parts with lighter parts.
That would apply to any car though. Less weight = faster acceleration / better handling
True, but it seems that we get a nice improvement out of any part we replace, more so than other cars will get from the same part. I know other cars get better performace out of the same part than we do, but we seem to luck out on most of our parts tho.
I thought both rotors came from the same materail and kit? So why is the smaller one heavier than the big one? I am just asking becuase I am more interested in the smaller one as I don't plan on putting in that much power into my car. But I hope both brakes weight less than the stock ones as that would be a good thing to knock off some weight.
On a side note from what I have seen it seem that to improve the cars overall proformace, we just need to replace stock parts with lighter parts.
The 11.75" and 12.2" kits use a two peice rotor.. the other one uses one. So they are different.
Well I've spent over 14 hours under the car trying to perfect the kits fitment. Since its a custom kit we kinda had to figure out some stuff we couldnt do on paper. Plus we ran into some rare manfacture defects and whatnot. Anyway we finally figured it all out and now I'm awaiting one last peice so I can hook up the kit.
I didnt get a chance to get 60-0mph braking times with the slotted rotors and KVR pad combo unfortunitly. I didn't think it would do any good. My pads have only 10% left at best, one of my calipers is leaking brake fluid on the rotor, and there is tons of air in the lines and my bleeder valve on one calipers broken. At least two others have the slotted rotor/kvr pad combo so hopfully one of them has a g-tech or something to get times with cuz that'd be a good comparison.
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