2012/03/29 22:38:44
kameleon
doh....
2012/04/01 07:57:48
bigh
Ok So picked the car up on friday night. Didn't miss a beat. Basically what happened was when the alternator guy did the rebuild, he missed checking the voltage regulator.  This was fixed under warranty. so no more cost - again big thanks to Danny and the Guys at JAK for being so good about it.
 
Drove down to phillip island on saturday for tough mudder, perfect - spotted this in the carpark
Driving down
525389_101506...8452455_n
 
2012/04/04 09:17:57
bigh
new brakes arrived! 
 
Doesn't look like braided lines, but that's ok hatted rotors are sexy! Can't wait to put these on the car. I'm strongly thinking about painting the callipers red though (masking the wilwood logo of course!) similar to this: 
 
would probably look a bit better than my current setup:

 
now I just have to decide which paint I'm going to use.will probably go High temp 2pac red like my old brakes on the supra.
 
 
2012/04/04 16:15:37
bigh
after seeing a wilwood Narrow Mount Dynapro caliper (which is the caliper I have here) in red, I don't think it really suits as much as the popular (and my favorite style -Forged Billet Superlites)
 
This is the difference: 
Dynapro on left, superlites on the right.

 
May change these on the next pad change, will see...
 
while this isn't exactly the same caliper- it's similar... but I don't think I like it in red so much. the superlights look amazing in red.

 
2012/04/07 09:42:32
bigh
Good news bad news.
 
Good news is the wilwoods look sex on the car... bad news is i stuffed two of the bleed nipples when trying to bleed them....

now they won't shut off... :(
 
back to stock i go while i get new nips.  
 
if only there was a forum sponsor who recently became a distributor for wilwood ;)  I may try and get some speed bleeders though...
Unfortunately for me- the wilwoods have an uncommon bleed nipple spec:
Brand   Wilwood Disc Brakes Manufacturer's Part Number   220-0627 Part Type   Brake Bleeders Product Line   Wilwood Brake Bleeder Screws Summit Racing Part Number   WIL-220-0627       Thread Size   1/8-27 in. NPT Quantity   Sold as a set of 4.  
 
2012/04/15 20:55:30
bigh
ok brakes are sorted now :) if only i haven't overtightened those break bleeders it would have been in much earlier.
 
Peddle feel is quite different, as is the sound of the brakes when braking - but wow the performance is quite good :) very happy with the upgrade.
 
Gave the car a bit of a wash too as it was being neglected.  
2012/04/26 08:35:39
purple5ive
hah those brakes are going to get a good workout at HH.
see you there
 
cheers
2012/04/26 09:06:41
bigh
heheh hopefully :) hope the weather improves!
2012/04/26 10:17:48
purple5ive
sunday is going to be good from the weather report, but weve been there with very very poor visibility and still had fun, weather turned for the better later on though.
cheers
2012/04/26 10:22:12
bigh
awesome :) yeah I'm just not confident in my car in the wet - I tend to baby it :P
 
need to re-bleed my brakes again to.  I can get the peddle to the firewall :( (of course doing that while driving results in a front brake lockup :P) 
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