Ive decided that im going to fit wilwood brakes to my Indy and just wondered if they do a kit that will bolt straight on to the sierra hubs front and rear.

Also anyone know if they do a caliper with a handbrake lever in it for the rear. If not does SVA allow you to use a hydraulic handbrake or a valve to to lock the rear brakes when the pedal is depressed.

Hope someone can help

Carnut

Don't know about the first question, but I'm fairly sure that wilwood don't do a cable handbrake rear caliper, and you can't use anything but a cable for SVA and also MOT I think.

Kingr

How about if the handbrake works on the prop?

If you want to use willwoods on the rear,you'll have to use seperate calipers for the handbrake, they do one called a "spot caliper" which is cable operated.
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wadders

Just searching and thought I'd drag this one out...

Carnut (or anyone else) have you got Wilwoods now or did you go a different route in the end?

Ned.

ive still got no brakes at all except for the old sierra ones in a box in the back of the garrage. Dont know what im going to do about brakes yet

As an update, iv'e found the Wilwood mechanical spot calipers extremely hard to get working properly, after hours and hours of experimenting with different cable setups and spring returns, i gave in, machined up 2 smaller disks which bolt between the diff/driveshaft flanges, bolted the calipers directly to the diff and knocked up a rod linkage system to the handbrake lever. with this direct system iv'e managed to get the calipers working,but only just, they're still far from perfect. Hand on heart i now wish i'd stuck with standard sierra brakes, the bike disks/calipers work great and look cool, but the handbrake has been a complete nightmare.


Al.

]Originally posted by Wadders
If you want to use willwoods on the rear,you'll have to use seperate calipers for the handbrake, they do one called a "spot caliper" which is cable operated.
rally design sell the whole range.


wadders [/quote

I read somewhere an alternative is to use a line lock + lever in the rear hydraulic circuit to act as a handbrake. there was a loophole someone used for getting though the mot i think. A guy called fat arnie on another forum said he's run without a handbrake since last millenium...

probably only an option once through the sva though.

I think i'll stick with standard rear brakes for sva then possibly uprate them after when funds are available and the cars on the road...

Ned.

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the bike disks/calipers work great and look cool, but the handbrake has been a complete nightmare.

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