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.

prockbp View Member Profile	Feb 16 2009, 12:13 AM Post #2
Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 440 Joined: 25-December 03 From: Newport Beach, California Member No.: 41	There is absolutely NO reason to be scared into buying new rotors. Check them out. Put them on a surface plate. Why can't you have them turned? It would be very easy to see if they are bent out of shape once they are on the lathe. You can also use penatrant testing to check for cracks. But I seriously doubt that the accident would have caused cracks. Extreme heat cycling is more likely to be the cause of that. This post has been edited by prockbp: Feb 16 2009, 03:25 AM