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fasteddiewick
post Feb 15 2009, 09:41 PM
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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.
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post Feb 16 2009, 12:14 AM
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QUOTE (fasteddiewick @ Feb 15 2009, 01:41 PM) *
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.


I'd be more concerned about the calipers if they have the cast lug style of mount. Are the rotors 2pc with aluminum hats? I would inspect calipers closely for any contact marks, spin rotors for runout, check spindles for bends (search frrax for howto). If everything checks out I'd replace all hardware with the proper grade, and keep them. What brackets are used? The brackets tend to be the weak point of aftermarket brake kits - the Trackbrackets are the state of the art but not set up for Wilwoods.
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fasteddiewick   Wilwood 6 piston setup. Keep or send back?   Feb 15 2009, 09:41 PM
sgarnett   How bad was the wreck, and where was the damage? I...   Feb 15 2009, 10:11 PM
trackbird   Beyond the points Sean brought up (which are very ...   Feb 15 2009, 10:12 PM
prockbp   There is absolutely NO reason to be scared into bu...   Feb 16 2009, 12:13 AM
Blainefab   QUOTE (fasteddiewick @ Feb 15 2009, 01:41...   Feb 16 2009, 12:14 AM

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