With the engine work out of the way, I could work on the new (not so big) Big Brake Kit!
Ended up getting lucky and scoped up a "FastBrakes" Wilwood kit that had never been used from a local guy. For the price I paid I can't really complain, however if I was paying full price for this I would have been disappointed. The bracket to hold the caliper was too thick, causing the caliper to essentially lock up the brakes when the caliper was bolted down. So I had to machine it down by about 2mm before it would work. On top of that, the new braided line supplied with the kit did not fit in the factory clips, so again some custom work was needed to secure the hose to the shock housing. Minor detail, but still, hardly the bolt on application they are advertising.
New parts:
Super messy garage:
And installed!
Performance wise they're not too bad. They do feel a little "soft" and there is definitely more pedal power needed. But the larger vented discs are definitely helping with heat. You can see how hot the stock rotors were getting, and these are hardly braking (puny hehe) a sweat. Only ran them with the factory included wilwood pads last year.
For this year I've picked up some Hawk DTC-60's from Shawn @ RallySport to try out on the track, hopefully they have more bite than the wilwoods.
And that was a wrap!
Or so I thought..
Turns out my ingenious solution to make the oil filter sandwich fit.. didn't work.
Luckily oil sprayed straight onto the exhaust manifold so I caught it right away and was able to kill the engine before it lost oil pressure.
I thought I had fixed this in time for the track junkies event (insert zip ties here) but it kept loosening off on me at the event after a couple events. So once I get off my lazy assay this spring I'll swap out the sandwich and move the oil pressure sender back to it's OE location and hope that will solve all the oil issues.
Twas a fun summer though!
Driven:
Jiggypop:
Dealership track experience day:
JNCA 2018:
ASA Lapping #3:
ASA Lapping #4:
Track Junkies:
Hopefully I can keep updating more than once a year..
Thanks for reading!