Wilwood 320mm 4 piston brakes

[SLE-883]

I was originally looking at the HSV 330mm or 343mm rotors for the VH but found that I could run the standard SLE rims with the Wilwood brakes.

Anyone running a set of the Wilwood 320mm 4 piston calipers on their car?

Just wanting some feedback on their performance, installation and the rim sizes. Photos of them installed on your car would be great too.

 

[SLE-883]

bump.

No one runs Wilwood?

 

[Sandman]

Probably not, most people don't go huge with brakes on commodores these days. Mate's just put 2 pots on his 66 Nova, pretty straight forward apparently and although these are 17's I think, with a positive offset commodore wheel you should have no dramas with clearance. Those welds are about 0 offset for memory.

 

[stick3]

gary who owns the vr senater with lsx 454 has them fitted here is build thread http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/vr-vs/215828-vr-senator-lsx454.html

you have go to the new commodore forum to ask him Forums Archive - CommodoresPlus he s not active on this forum any more

 

[TI3VOM]

From memory the Wilwoods don't have dust seals, so most people don't run them as they do not meet ADR's.
Performance would be a **** load better than standard.

 

[SLE-883]

From memory the Wilwoods don't have dust seals, so most people don't run them as they do not meet ADR's.
Performance would be a **** load better than standard.

I've heard the same.

I was looking at the 320mm kit as they'll fit in front of the standard VH SLE rims and with 4pot, stop much better. The reason I'm getting turned off these apart from the ADR issue is that the kit CRS sell show that the hub sits proud and it wouldn't let me run the Simmons centre caps.

As a car that is being built for the street, not track or 1/4 mile racing, would the VT twin piston 298mm brake upgrade be enough?

 

[stick3]

any twin piston caliper and bigger rotor is a big improvement over a single piston caliper imho. i fitted the rda ve 322mm to my vs ute shts all over the single piston 289mm standard brakes

 

[Smitty]

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As a car that is being built for the street, not track or 1/4 mile racing, would the VT twin piston 298mm brake upgrade be enough?

thats all I run on the race car...and with a set of Ferodo race pads, it stops consistently from the high side of $2.00

 

[TI3VOM]

The VT kit would be a big improvement.
I personally would go for a aftermarket kit myself, those AP's I told you that I have, have the option of running with a smaller size rotor 304mmx28m? (from memory). Something like that would really pull up your car.

 

[Sandman]

Sorry forgot the photo in my last post, think the guy that owns this said they now have the dust boots so are/becoming adr approved.