Hi guys and gals. Any chance people can post a few photos of their sierra based wilwood front brakes. I think I maybe missing a couple of spacers between the calipers and upright bracket. The kit I bought from rallydesign find come with any guides on what i should have.

I dont have Sierra uprights, I have Cortina but there are spacers between the caliper and bracket, I assume the Sierra is the same.

You can see the spacers in front of the gold brackets.

They space the calipers away from the centre of the disc off the brackets.

So brackets > spacers > caliper.

Not good news russ. you can get the majority of the shiny stuff on though.

what pads did you go for?

wilwood smart pads mate, ill find out what their like in may :-)

Yep, there should be spacers between the bracket and caliper as shown above. RD should sort them for you but a stack of washers would do just to trial assemble them. I also had a smidge machined of the brackets to get perfect caliper alignment, but that was just being picky.
I had the wilwood pads for a while then switched to Mintex1144's and theymuch better.

ps. Why is it when someone asks for photos of a part, it seems to be the one thing I've never taken a photo of?

Dont even put the wilwood pads in just order yourself the mintex 1144s they are that bad!

Really! Oh heck ! Ok I'll take the recommendation and return the wilwoods for the mintex, why are they soo bad?

They honestly feel like you are pressing on the brake pedal with a piece of wood, there is no feedback and no real feel of deceleration and although i havent tested on laps round a track i wouldnt want to. I was thinking surely the mintex cant be that much on an improvement and this is just how a non servo car would feel but the mintex really are a leauge or two ahead, they work from cold and bite like you would expect from a modern car.
Adam

Anyone want some wilwood smart pads!
I have noticed there is slight play between the wilwood spacer an the sierra upright lug mounts, is this normal or sloppy design?

Shouldn't be any play. Wasn't on most sets I've seen.

Can't see how there is play once it's all tightened up?

There is play before its tightened up, but the spacer and then caliper location is different once tight depending on where the bracket was due to play?

Perhaps it's so you can line it up accurately with the disc. I didn't notice it tbh.

I'd stick some DS2500s in if I was you, they're a million times better than the smart pads, and not a lot more cash either