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Why only sloted rotors and four piston calipers? Because that is what is best for what we are doing with the car Mike at Wilwood helped my decide what the best system was for our street driven, soon to be very fast, autocrossed alot, track day car would need and would hold up under all conditions properly.

This is the stock tC system with sloted rotors instead of plain or drilled, the brake pads were selected for the intended use as well, I forget which ones right now, too tired to look in the box. We are going to use their EXP 600+ brake fluid and of course SS lines. We still need to get some rear lines made up.

These are really going to fill out the front wheels, Enkei RPF1 17x8, actually a very close fit, closer than some 16" designs I have seen.

We may install them tomorrow or wait a couple of days until done with other projects and start pulling the tranny for the LSD, flywheel, clutch, motor mount, front Hotchkis sway bar install we are doing, all the parts are finally here.

After this the car will be completed for handling and braking.

Except the second set of RPF1 wheels for slicks all around

I can hardly wait for the turbo now!!!!

Rick

 

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Thanks, I have had brakes I was never quite satisfied with on other project cars so this time went with a company with a huge history for doing things right

I really only "need" them for track days on road courses but like good brakes for just about all other things I like to do with my car.

And, they look so sweet, not bling at all, black hats, black calipers, not drilled, they are for real performance on a car we are building to be really fast all around, not some trailer queen or max HP dyno ***** either

Rick

 

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ED,
Welcome

I will have to let my son know about the site you moderate, he is getting more and more into the ether (spelling) regions of PCs all the time

Not sure if they fit the stock wheels, if not it would be the face of the caliper hitting the spokes if anything, spacers would cure that but I sure do not like spacers all that much.

I have about 1/2" clearance from the front edge of the caliper to the wheel rim and these wheels are rather small in diameter in that area, much more so that most 17's (17x8 Enkei RPF1 +35mm)

These brakes really stuff the wheels full, the design of the wheel is such that it makes the brakes almost look to big, lol! I would acutally have gone with smaller rotors if they had a mounting hat available

I need some kind of drag wheel, preferrably in 15" for the occasional night at the strip, may have some custom steelies made, probably going to end up with 16's so will go search for real slicks in that size, just never bothered before. I could always swap to stock brakes for drags but that is alot of hassle to do.

Mainly AutoX, Road Course and a few canyon runs here and there is what the car is setup for. The road course runs are really the only thing I needed the brakes for in my opinion with the exception of looks for some shows we will be in and going for some mag articles(I have some good contacts in that department

 

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I was fortunate enough to have direct help from Wilwood in selecting not only rotor size but sloted versus drilled(already knew I wanted sloted) because we are doing track days And we picked out 4 pistons instead of 6 calipers, piston diameter so the stock master cylinder would be matched even the appropriate all around brake pads though that will take some autox, track time to nail it down exactly.

The width of the pad contact area is narrower than the stock rotors as well, they had this pretty well worked out and just made minor adjustments to what my kit would consist of. Still, great to work out most of the issues before even getting the kit shipped out

As for the rear, they confirmed my intentions of going for a rotor upgrade(more for cosmetics) and brake pads to work well with the fronts. I had already painted the rear calipers black as knew I wanted black front calipers so it is complete out back except the SS lines. Of course I really do not need them but just the same, I will change to them because I want to

Rick

 

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I think there is a bit of confusion here Lower number offset will puch the rim and spokes out away from the calipers for more clearance.

Enkei makes several wheels that come in 18x8 +35 that fill out the wheel wells very nicely and easily clear the rotors of the brakes you are talking about

We have 17x8 RPF1 +35mm and plenty of clearance of the spokes, only about 1/2" from the caliper to the rim though but these wheels have a small diameter section in the rim in that location for strenght. These are very very strong 15.6 lb wheels, I know from experience just how strong they are

http://www.enkei.com/racingseries.html

 

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Enkei RPF1, 17x8, +35mm, 15.6 lbs each, perfect fit with 235/40/17's but will rub a bit in the rear with near zero camber I have dialed in and a full load in the car.

I am testing different setups to dial in some slight oversteer

Rick