mazie
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| posted on 17/2/12 at 09:39 PM |
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Wilwood front brakes photos needed
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.
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big-vee-twin
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| posted on 17/2/12 at 10:11 PM |
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I dont have Sierra uprights, I have Cortina but there are spacers between the caliper and bracket, I assume the Sierra is the same.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 17/2/12 at 10:53 PM |
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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.
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bi22le
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| posted on 17/2/12 at 11:14 PM |
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Not good news russ. you can get the majority of the shiny stuff on though.
what pads did you go for?
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mazie
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 12:12 AM |
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wilwood smart pads mate, ill find out what their like in may :-)
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adithorp
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 09:09 AM |
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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.
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bassett
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 10:53 AM |
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Dont even put the wilwood pads in just order yourself the mintex 1144s they are that bad!
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mazie
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 11:46 AM |
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Really! Oh heck ! Ok I'll take the recommendation and return the wilwoods for the mintex, why are they soo bad?
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bassett
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 01:53 PM |
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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.
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mazie
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 06:18 PM |
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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?
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 18/2/12 at 06:31 PM |
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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?
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mazie
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| posted on 19/2/12 at 10:20 PM |
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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?
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 20/2/12 at 07:11 AM |
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Perhaps it's so you can line it up accurately with the disc. I didn't notice it tbh.
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thefreak
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| posted on 20/2/12 at 12:38 PM |
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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
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