http://forums.maxima.org/5th-generat...ml#post6956743

Anybody want to buy a BBK? My friend who owns a shop is willing to make a Wilwood BBK for us if we can get 5 guys or more to commit. The price will be about $1200 shipped anywhere in the US.

It's a 13" 2pc rotor, 4pot calipers, SS brake lines, bracket and pads.



We will be test fitting the BBK on my car tomorrow.

 

Nobody is interested?

 

i had my 02 on roebling road in georgia on friday with 6th gen brakes and hps pads, and its an awesome setup. i wanted a babk for the looks, but the 6th gen brakes on my 5.5 were beyond excellent..

 

k...not quite sure how that is relevant in the least...

GL on the GD, man

 

This has no relevance to this thread. However they might "seem" excellent but the weight of them takes the brownie point from them.
6th gen brakes have a weakness
A) they are heavy and iron
B) 1 piston caliper

Wilwood bbk FTW.
I have the FSL 4 pot caliper with 13 inch 2 piece rotors and they weigh in at 15 pounds rotors and calipers.

 

Wow....dude get that crap out of my thread. Everything you said is not relevant to my thread. Your 30 pound brakes take away any type advantage especially with your 1 piston brake. 4 Piston, 2pc rotor > heavy 1 pot, 1pc heavy rotor.

 

You know you want a BBK!

 

post it in 6th gen section too i guess, it should bolt up for them

 

I wish...You already got me hooked on the dog gone 3" cattman cat back . But I guess I should probably get this upgrade before the turbo - eh? Maybe I can get the wife to go along... Yeah Right.

 

Oh, man, in ways you cannot even imagine.

Aside from wheels I am only dumping heavy moolah in to one final upgrade for the Max, and that's a set of JICs in 2010

 

But tiny brakes behind some nice rims looks tacky

 

Man I wish I had the money. :cry:

The real big question though about this kit is clearances? Not that I'm worried about it with the wheels I have, but I know there are probably people with near stock offsets that might run into problems. It's also probably pretty fair to say you have to have 18" or larger diameter wheels too. Will they clear better than the Z32 + cobra rotor setup?

 

Do you need to upgrade the master cylinder for this type of application, in order to get the full use of the 4 pistons, or will it be fine? I'm just looking at it as it uses more does it need more to perform.

 

Z32 calipers with 13" cobra rotors is a god enough setup nice bbk why spend so much on wilwood think that **** over

 

17s will fit as long as they are the right offset and spoke design is important as well. They should be about the same with the cobra setup but there is no pad overhang compared to the cobra setup.

 

No upgrading needed.

 

No need to upgrade the master cylinder

so your good to go

 

With the amount of weight saved with the wilwood setup, it is very well worth it. Also there is no pad overhang compared to the cobra setup. You're saving at least 20+ pounds compared to the heavy calipers and cobra rotors.

 

It's significantly lighter than your suggested setup.

Think that **** over.

 

I remember when i was one of the first to build a custom wilwood bbk. Now everybody wants one. $1200 is decent though because
Calipers-pads-lines-hardware was roughly $600 from summit. Then add rotors and brackets to the price.

Hands down the wilwood bbk is better then the old tired z32 bbk.
z32 lacks because calipers are old and have to be rebuilt or bought re-manufactured and then there is the fact of pad over-hang meaning not all of the pad is used on the rotor.

Plus the FSL Wilwood caliper is lighter then the alluminum z32 caliper.

 

May I ask whats the difference between this kit and the Ebay Wilwood kit?? Im assuming the rotors thats it?? And a $410 difference
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Big-B...9903QQtcZphoto

 

Man I wish I could afford it, but I just got done building a $7200 motor for my Camaro, lol.

 

Looks like the 2pc rotors are slotted, is there an option for a "blank" style rotor?

S

 

2pc rotor and also that kit is a 12" rotor, while my friend's kit is an actual 13" rotor that is 2pc.

 

More than likely, yes you could prob have blank style rotors.

 

2-piece rotors are much lighter. they also run much cooler as theres less heat to dissipate from the cast iron rotor with the aluminum hat. the floating rotor design allows the rotor to expand and contract under heat and pressure reducing the chances of warping. replacement is also easier with just replacing the rotor and keeping the hat rather than the entire piece.



all you guys downtalking a nice and very effective product, if you dont like the killer price, gtfo. if you just dont like it, keep your comments to yourself and gtfo. if you do like it, by all means post but relevant info. stop complaining about pricing and comparing it to the z32 setup. if youre satisfied with the z32 with one-piece rotors, fine. thats great. big woop. think about how much 2-pc cobra rotors are running in the GD section. definitely a great idea on AuToMaX_95's part for coming up with such a thing. also not to mention how much unsprung weight the superlite wilwood calipers save compared to the behemoth z32 calipers. get your info straight before posting. this man is trying to get better brake systems for you whiny people and this is the thanks he gets? nice guys. REAL professional and appreciative.

 

Thank you couldn't have said it better myself

 

After discussing this with other staff members, we are not allowing this discussion to continue. OP, if you want to continue with this deal, please do so outside of the Org via another medium because we do not want to put any of this site's members at risk if anything goes wrong.

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