Well boys, here is the answer I have been waiting for.................
I received a call from Dennis Olthopp this morning. In so many words, he said he has been working on a cure for the current Wilwood and PBR caliper issue for 10 weeks now and has had a difficult time convincing upper management that there is a problem. (Gee, could it be a money issue with Superformance?) anyway.....As I mentioned in an earlier thread, he did some tests on 34mm, 41mm, PBR, and the old 4 pot Wilwood caliper, and it is clear to him that the PBR's and new 34mm Wilwood is "worthless"! He has found that the cure is the old 4 pot Wilwood that was used from about car#2650 back is the way to go. He said the reason Superformance changed was so they could incorporate the emergency brake and get rid of the old drive shaft unit. He said the old E-brake was pretty bad and he will continue to work on a fix for the E-brake. He said it will take a month or so to sort out the E-brake and will forward the necessary parts for the owner to fix (or take to the shop I would suppose). Additionally, Olthopp states he has completely new brackets comming from S. Africa and pads that actually work comming from France. These new pads are supposed to come on the new retro calipers and will be available for the front as well.
Olthopp said in his opinion, there is no need for a proportion valve as he feels that the NEW calipers WILL NOT overstop the fronts. Below in the next thread I will show an E-mail sent to me and others from D.Olthopp from several weels ago showing the tests and reason he knows the calipers ar bad.
Anyone wishing to be added to a list of cars to be retrofited please E-mail me with your name and phone number. It may help in the long run to have a data base ready with car numbers and the such so no one gets left out....tom
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