Has anyone tried the Arizona Z-Car Wilwood brake upgrade?!?!

[MarkEmark]

Here's the link...

http://www.arizonazcar.com/240sxbrakes.html

I'd be interested in the last pair ($795), which would most surely clear the wheels I have right now.

It seems like a pretty good deal and an excellent alternative to the 300zx upgrade because these are wilwood calipers, which are most definitely lighter and are designed more for racing, if I'm not mistaken...

Plus, if you look at the pictures, the billet aluminum rotor center almost sticks out as far as the caliper itself, which means these brakes would clear a large variety of wheels.

As far as comparing them to 300zx brakes, they're 12.2" in diameter and 1.25" thick, which is almost 1.5" in diameter larger than the standard 240sx brakes. What size are the N/A 300ZX brakes...I believe they're 26 mm thick? What are the specs on the OEM 240sx brakes? I can't find my damn FSM....

The thing that I'm concerned about is that forged rotor center (the red circle) that you see in the picture...I have no idea about the design of these things compared to OEM brakes, but my main question would be does that protruding rotor center designed to allow most wheels to clear the brakes affect the effective offset of wheels (by pushing the wheels out toward the edge of the center)? EDIT...just called the guy and he said it decreases the effective offset by 1/8"...negligible.

The other concern is where one would buy rotors when the first set wore out...and I don't like that they aren't cross drilled/slotted for the $795 kit.

I was just wondering if anyone here was running these or if they had heard anything good or bad about them....because they seem damn nice. I'd actually probably reduce my unsprung weight upgrading to these...the calipers look a lot lighter than even the 300zx aluminum ones.

Thanks

Marc

[Chingon]

I posted a thread about these some time ago. PPl seemed to like them, and others thought it was overkill. I say if you are gonna be ripped a new one w/the prices the z32 upgrade is selling, might as well get these.

A good thing is that perhaps you get better pad options from carbontech and wilwood.A bad thing is that if they are using dynalites (doesn't look like it from the picture), the pistons don't come w/a dust boot and are prone to needing rebuilds or getting ditched in regular intervals (if driven on street and not garage kept).
Modified by Chingon at 4:11 AM 12/18/2004