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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 04:37 PM
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Heres all the parts scattered and ready!

after unbolting the wheel we got to take a look at the old:

you have to unbolt these two guys here..ususally a 17mm will do the trick..it helps if you turn the wheel towards you to allow more space


as you unbolt the caliper make sure you have something near by to put the caliper on, you do not want it dangling by the brake lines, and you dont want to undo those yet a jack stand worked nicely:


using the braket and bolts supplied, bolt on the rotor and caliper as my buddy does here:

now comes the tricky part you have to unbolt the brake lines...this gave us trouble because the top bolt wouldnt catch and the bottom bolt is circular, i couldnt take a clear enough picture of this but we used a wrench and finally got it off..once you do that connect the new lines and bleed out the lines...you do this by having a guy get in a pump the brakes we did 5 pushes and hold down release and do that over and over a few times until the fluid is drained and pressure is solid and add some fluid and move on..it will look like this when all connected

do that on the other corner!




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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 04:42 PM
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dont you mean brake lines?

looks good. how much was the kit? whats the size of stock vs the wilwood? and driving impressions?
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 05:11 PM
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this is for our JDMups.com shop car so it was sponsored by fastbrakes.com, but i believe they are selling the kit for 1000, the stock size is much smaller i believe stock front is like 11.8 and these are 12.76, there is a clear difference but we are still breaking them in so we have to go easy for now
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 05:14 PM
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lets see a whole car pic to get the whole idea
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 05:15 PM
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ive gotta boner.
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Old Aug 13, 2008 | 05:17 PM
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Very Nice
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 04:53 AM
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full pics will be coming soon...waiting for the weather to clear so i can actually take decent photos
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 06:45 AM
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what's up mike, is that your TSX? no more Benz? check the post's for a bunch of shots of the DC, still can't find anyone to trade MINT panels for the Kevlar ones...
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 07:37 AM
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sick, any pics of the whole car?
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 07:43 AM
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yeah sold the benz a lil bit ago and started building this tsx
pics of the whole car are coming!
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 08:17 AM
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Very nice! Wilwood FTW

Are those Superlites?
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 08:52 AM
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^^^ YES THEY ARE
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 09:06 AM
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cool dude. did you get the 4pots? you should've opted for the new 6pots!!! but it's cool, the 4 pots work great too.
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 10:30 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by yee SERIOUS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">cool dude. did you get the 4pots? you should've opted for the new 6pots!!! but it's cool, the 4 pots work great too.</TD></TR></TABLE>
yah yours are working great in my car hahahahaha
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 11:34 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by yee SERIOUS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">cool dude. did you get the 4pots? you should've opted for the new 6pots!!! but it's cool, the 4 pots work great too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

There are far fewer pads available for the 6 pots... and a shortage of any real track compounds.
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 12:10 PM
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looks great
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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 12:16 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Egezzy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ive gotta boner.
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wanna hang out?
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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 01:54 AM
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rofl!

to Op - can't wait to see the tsx, ol' gsr was nice.
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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 04:23 AM
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thanks..if it would stop raining here i would have full pics up
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