Subject: Re: brake upgrades - for spiders?

[Jay Negrin <jmnegrin@domain.elided>]

I was some years ago, when I was looking to upgrade the brakes on a
non-Alfa.  Drums in back to discs.  Bigger discs in front.  I checked
out Wilwood.  For all the parts, front and back, I was looking at about
$1700.  That included calipers, rotors and some adapter hardware.  I
think, maybe also a propertioning valve.  I don't remember if it
included a new master cyl or not.  A major problem that I had was that
the car wasn't worth it, and likely never would be.  I just drove it
accordingly.  That is, until I could afford a *real* car, with real brakes.

btw, Wilwood calipers were 4-pot up front and 2-piston in the rear.


Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 20:59:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Zamani Zambri <zzambrimail@domain.elided>
Subject: Re:  brake upgrades - for spiders?

Hi,

I think $1600 is very expensive for a 2 piston caliper kit. I checked
out www.pitstopusa.com and have found the following:

Superlite or Dynalite 4-pot calipers: $100 each
~300mm Rotors vented: $40 each
hats: $50 each
pads: $50 set
adaptors: ~$100
hoses & fittings: $75

About $600+ and you can get a good setup I think.

If anyone has done a Wilwood upgrade please let me know of any info.
I'm thinking of an upgrade in the future but would like to start
collecting parts now.

Zamani

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