ST185 Wilwood 6-piston front brake kit

dragstang86

New member
Would there be any interest in bringing back the 6-piston WIlwood front brake kits like what Rocketeer used to sell? I have one of the Rocketeer kits on my car and also have ties to WIlwood and have thought about looking into reproducing it if there is any interest.
 

psipwrd

Member
The problem with Wilwood for me is the area circled in red, but CEIKA's clear my wheels with a few mm to spare.



CEIKA tried to sell me way more brake than I asked for. Once I free up some funds, I'll be looking to get the CEIKAs, otherwise, I'd have the wilwood 4pots by now.
 

aus jd 2703

New member
let me start by saying I have the revolution kit and had 205 callipers before going the wilwood route as I didn't like the necessary modification's to run the 205 brakes.
ive done a few track days with hard sessions. I do run ducting to help and the revolution kit appears to be adequate, have temp stickers on the calipers and it never got the caliper temps over 150'c. I run ferrodo ds3000 pads and the bite is awesome and zero fade as expected they get better towards the end of the run....

from my experiences:
unless our going to run the W6A caliper or the TC6 ie the big pad calipers, there is no advantage to running the 6 over 4 piston wilwoods as the pads are the same size and the 4 are already verging on two much piston area. (long pedal travel).
if you want the 6 piston cool factor go nuts but performance wise the gains are minimal and its possibly worse depending on piston diameter selection.
oh and as for the differential piston bores I have no noticeable pad taper....
imo revolution kit, good pads and fluid and ull be fine for 90% of competition. and the 10% you wont have enough brakes for you would need a large budget so the AP kit would be the ideal option.
 
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