13 inch wilwoods and 4 piston calipers.....



if that dont work here is the link, the pics are at the bottom of the page....
http://community.webshots.com/album/36818086JjSCRA


[Modified by gambit33, 11:31 PM 7/14/2002]


[Modified by gambit33, 11:33 PM 7/14/2002]

 

oooolala...lookin good aaron!!

 

They have a 13" kit? I thought they only made 12.2 kit? Oh well not sure. I have the 12.2 inch kit. Our rotors look alittle different hench i am asking. I am running 17" wheels as well.





[Modified by lshatchturbo, 7:23 PM 7/14/2002]

 

edit: 0ops my mistake, lshatchturbo is correct, 12.19 inch rotors to be exact

 

Damn those are so nice, excuse me I need to go change my shorts now

 

No prob man. Still bad as fock though so no biggie anyways .80" from 13" so who cares

 

fucken nice.....

 

beautiful

 

where did you pick those up? How much? Care to write a review? Thanks.

 

i picked up my set from overboost.com. They work great i couldnt be happier with them, no brake fade at all. Kind of touchy, you will lock them up if you stomp on them. But when you get use to them you will stop in a fraction of the time over the oem brakes. We tested them and did the install at overboost.com and the article will be up in about a week or so, so check it out

sorry i am not a writer


[Modified by gambit33, 3:51 AM 7/15/2002]

 

those are freagin nice

 

nice brakes :drool:

 

those just might do the job

 

lookin good

 

sweet i like the calipers

 

My review is similar to gambits. First of all I love them, and if you **** about stopping like I am and on a tight budget, the wilwood kit is the way to go. I agree with gambit, they are very touchy. Maybe its cause i use to have 9.5" monster rotors on my car. But when you want to stop, the car just plain out STOPs. Like its amazing. Install is very strait foward its a basic bolt on process. The cons i see to them are as follows:

1) You now have four bleeder screws to bleed and bleeding them requires you to be more precise. I used a speed bleeder as I always do when bleeding things and this helped speed up the process.

2) You choice of wheel becomes reduced. You must remember, with these 4 piston calipers they do stick out farther and you will be required to atleast use a 16" wheel, and even at that some and most dont fit. Off the top of my head the only 16" wheels that work are TE-37 40mm offset and SSR competitions. I use to have 17" Kosei Racing RT-Pentas, and they didnt even clear without a spacer. Use these wheels alessio turbos, as a temp replacement.

3) If you drag race at the track often as I do, you can not run regular slicks. You will have to do what I do and run on some BFG drag radials 205/40/17. The Nitto Drag radials dont come in a favorable 17" size for civics, but they do have a favorable size for a 16" wheel.

Sum up performance, I would reccomend them to a person who wants awesome performance, and looks as well as saving some money. I got my kit from overboost.com. I now found that summit racing has the same kit for almost $90 less! Check them out if your interested. It sometimes doesnt feel right for a civic to stop as fast as mine does. But I am def. not complaining


[Modified by lshatchturbo, 11:28 AM 7/15/2002]

 

but really the only major draw back is how your wheel choicegets reduced, very few rims will clears the calipers.



[Modified by gambit33, 6:40 AM 7/15/2002]

 

damn man like i told u before i love your car and how its just simple....the rims and now wilwood brakes please stop it your killin me. hey may i ask u how much u paid?

 

Anything bad about them? Noise? More maintanence?

 

Noise isnt really a factor once the pads are broken in. I will tell you this. When ever you do need to change the pads its going to be so simple its ridiculous. Maybe gambit has heard this on his car as well, when you really get on the brakes they makes this nice hum then the car stops. I have had them for about 8 months now with no problems. The only thing I did go and do is upgrade my master cylinder. My car was a 92 DX and the cylinder was puny and it was on the verge up messing up anyways. I stepped out to a integra and brake feel was def. more precise.

 

Yes i have noticed a mild hmmmm when you step on them kind of hard. And to change the brake pads all you have to do is pull out a pin and the pads just about fall out, it is just that easy.

 

Unbelievable!

 

bad ***