Wilwood 6 piston setup. Keep or send back? - F-Body Road Racing and Autocross Forums

Need to make a quick decision. Bought a used Wilwood 6 piston front set up and a reg. rear wilwood brakes with bracket set up for my camaro on Ebay. Spent 550.00 with shipping. He threw in the spindles also. Even though he was driving on them before the WRECK, the local Porterfield race rep said I should replace all rotors. The seller said he had about 10K of back East driving on the setup. He said the calipers worked fine.
Looking at the cost of replacing the rotors. 900.00 and still unsure of the calipers. Again he did say they worked fine?
He has offered to send my money back less the shipping 160.00 for both ways.

What would you guys do. Do I send all of it back and eat the 160.00 or is it still good enought setup to replace the rotors and hope the best on the caliper. I could alway rebuilt them. Does anyone know if those caliper have issues with 10K and rebuilds?

I know a lot of questions. But the guy does sound like a decent guy and I do not want to string him along one way or the other.
Any quick help/advise would be appreicated.
Ed
Note: These brakes were to upgrade a 94 camaro ex SCCA AS car that I was planning to do some HPDE and maybe an open road race car/Silver state 160 MPH car.

fasteddiewick View Member Profile	Feb 15 2009, 09:41 PM Post #1
Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 37 Joined: 21-July 06 Member No.: 1,290	Need to make a quick decision. Bought a used Wilwood 6 piston front set up and a reg. rear wilwood brakes with bracket set up for my camaro on Ebay. Spent 550.00 with shipping. He threw in the spindles also. Even though he was driving on them before the WRECK, the local Porterfield race rep said I should replace all rotors. The seller said he had about 10K of back East driving on the setup. He said the calipers worked fine. Looking at the cost of replacing the rotors. 900.00 and still unsure of the calipers. Again he did say they worked fine? He has offered to send my money back less the shipping 160.00 for both ways. What would you guys do. Do I send all of it back and eat the 160.00 or is it still good enought setup to replace the rotors and hope the best on the caliper. I could alway rebuilt them. Does anyone know if those caliper have issues with 10K and rebuilds? I know a lot of questions. But the guy does sound like a decent guy and I do not want to string him along one way or the other. Any quick help/advise would be appreicated. Ed Note: These brakes were to upgrade a 94 camaro ex SCCA AS car that I was planning to do some HPDE and maybe an open road race car/Silver state 160 MPH car.

trackbird View Member Profile	Feb 15 2009, 10:12 PM Post #2
FRRAX Owner/Admin Group: Admin Posts: 15,432 Joined: 13-February 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 196	Beyond the points Sean brought up (which are very good ones), I can say that: I ran a set of Wilwood 6 piston calipers that I bought used (and not lightly used either) from EugenioSS here on the board. He ran them hard and often and I turned rotors purple with them running autocross events. They are now on LS1plus's car (here on the board) and I know he's used them at speeds approaching the high 180 mph range. I don't know how many street miles are on them now, but I'm going to think 40,000-50,000 miles. They are still going strong. If everything looks straight, there is a good chance it will live a long, happy life.