wilwood big brakes

bowsercake

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Kind of off topic, but, it's about the Wilwoods. Obviously they have a better design than stock and they can cool better.
But, with race pads on stock calipers you can still lock up R-compound tires. Do the wilwood calipers really provide a better stopping force or is it just that the force is more consistent and they cool better?
 

arz

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The surface area is so much greater you can keep doing it much more frequently than you can with the stock caliper and rotors. Try it yourself take your race pads on your stock calipers and get the car up to 80-90 mph and haul it down to 5 mph, floor it back up to 80-90-100mph and do it again, do this 4 times and see what happens on the 3rd or 4th time. Its very scary, now make sure you go home and replace your brake fluid, because it will be boiling for sure.

Then give me a call when you want new brakes.

It really is a night and day difference. The caliper body does not flex like the stock floating caliper does. The rotor has way more capacity to dissipate that much heat, the fin design is way more efficient at moving air, the pads are 20 mm thick, and the piston is stainless steel which does not conduct heat at near the rate of the stock single piston. Not to mention the stock single piston is entirely behind the rotor and not near as subject to cooling from the ambient air. Although this is not a major cooling factor I figure its worth mentioning.

I realize a glowing recommendation from the guy that sells them might be biased, but I hope that answers a few questions.

And I hope a few of my customers will chime in also. Its not a small increase in brake performance, its huge.
 

Mr.PFloyd

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the wilwoods wont fade like stock calipers... and if you're locking up r compound tires with stock calipers... the fronts must be replaced with larger width tires.
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Poodles

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not to mention your rotors are gonna be eaten alive and warped to hell (or cracked if you have cheap crossdrilled rotors).

I've seen what stock brakes can do with good pads, it's pretty impressive...until he had ZERO brakes after his last lap and came into the pits. Boiled brake fluid sucks...