crazypurgatory
Veteran Member
I am having problems getting a wilwood brake kit to fit my 1971 Camaro.
I'm looking at the 13 inch rotor kits well 12.88.
wilwood said that they don't make a kit for me because I have an off set of 2 7/8 of an inch between the axle flange and the face of the axle. they told me to call moser engineering because those are the axle's I have.
So I call them up and I told them what I have and I told them what axles I have they told me I have the right ones. I told them that my diff was 55 1/4 from flange to flange that's right to me I just looked it up. they tell me that's wrong and it should be 55 3/4. they asked me to measure the axle's they should be 30 1/16. mine are 30 1/8. so then the axle is too long but they won't say that all they say is that it's impossible because they use a BLA BLA BLA machine to cut the axles. SO what the hell do I do? I had my neighbor come over and he said to run the kit with the 2 3/4 off set and shim it out. I am looking at the Forged Narrow Superlite 4R Big Brake Rear Parking Brake Kit's they only come in offsets of 2.75 and 2.81. I'm going with those kits because I want the Calipers to match front and rear as I am going to get the 6 piston Calipers for the front.
So what do I do??? My idea is to buy the one kit with the 2.75 offset and shim it or if it does not work throw out my new axles that are the wrong size and get custom ones made.
The kit I'm looking at is 140-12964.
https://www.wilwood.com/BrakeKits/BrakeKitsProdRear?itemno=140-12964-D
I don't need to run the Staggered Mounted Calipers because I got a kit from ride tech that gets rid of the leaf springs and shocks for a upper and lower control arm and coil over's.
Help Help Help I need to figure this out because I found the kit on sale till the ned of them month for 1449 and free shipping. and that seems to be deal of the century or at least the cheapest Ive every found it.
Thanks,
Chris
I'm looking at the 13 inch rotor kits well 12.88.
wilwood said that they don't make a kit for me because I have an off set of 2 7/8 of an inch between the axle flange and the face of the axle. they told me to call moser engineering because those are the axle's I have.
So I call them up and I told them what I have and I told them what axles I have they told me I have the right ones. I told them that my diff was 55 1/4 from flange to flange that's right to me I just looked it up. they tell me that's wrong and it should be 55 3/4. they asked me to measure the axle's they should be 30 1/16. mine are 30 1/8. so then the axle is too long but they won't say that all they say is that it's impossible because they use a BLA BLA BLA machine to cut the axles. SO what the hell do I do? I had my neighbor come over and he said to run the kit with the 2 3/4 off set and shim it out. I am looking at the Forged Narrow Superlite 4R Big Brake Rear Parking Brake Kit's they only come in offsets of 2.75 and 2.81. I'm going with those kits because I want the Calipers to match front and rear as I am going to get the 6 piston Calipers for the front.
So what do I do??? My idea is to buy the one kit with the 2.75 offset and shim it or if it does not work throw out my new axles that are the wrong size and get custom ones made.
The kit I'm looking at is 140-12964.
https://www.wilwood.com/BrakeKits/BrakeKitsProdRear?itemno=140-12964-D
I don't need to run the Staggered Mounted Calipers because I got a kit from ride tech that gets rid of the leaf springs and shocks for a upper and lower control arm and coil over's.
Help Help Help I need to figure this out because I found the kit on sale till the ned of them month for 1449 and free shipping. and that seems to be deal of the century or at least the cheapest Ive every found it.
Thanks,
Chris
