My car is on its way here, I bought a roller from Kayalami/Dynamic in Ohio. So I have not even seen the car in person yet. (gets here this week, on a truck somewhere between OH&CA)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other...spagenameZWDVW
So when it gets here, I will pop it up in the air and check out what is going on and verify exactly which calipers and rotors are installed, I have been told they are the 'New wilwoods (meaning 34mm)
My dealer has "no news they can say" about a solution, however they reassure that there has to be a fix on the way.
The way I see it, unless something happens with the Permanent fix, there will be a captive audience of SPF cars with no brake parts support, looking for conversions. I was thinking the best people for the job would be;
1. SSBC --
www.ssbrakes.com they specialize in putting on disc brakes where there were not brakes before.
2. Griggs Racing, they use a sierra based system on GT500s (new) and have some serious caliper setups.
3. Brembo; 'there is always room for brembo' ---
Any one of these companies would have already SHIPPED the solution, vs *****footing around.
Earlier in the thread, I read that someone was "Sending someone a master cylinder" . seems a little backward.
MY question would be; Aren't these master cylinders somewhat standardized in the automotive world so that we would have a piston /plunger diameter, and outlet tube dimension, PSI generated and a ratio of a front and back proportion to be maintained. From that point you should be able to review this on some sort of CAD software (or at very least a spreadsheet with formulas) ...at say wilwood and find out the answer.
My other thought is that Wilwood should be managing upward to their customer on this one. How many SPF guys are going to talk to other performance auto guys (read: Other consumers) and "wince" at the "W-Word". in todays shaky auto-after market they cant afford the bad rap.
Secondly who the *#*(@# at the wilwood OEM desk said it was OK to ship this 34MM thing replacing the 4 piston Dynalites, there had to be something more than; "well they are in stock". Short version: The tech rep dropped the ball, as in a liability case, wilwood would be yarded into court as well.
The part I am really concerned about here is why are we having a poor guy in RENO do R&D on this, on HIS TIME!
That is not fair to Steve in Reno, I cant imagine the stress on that one. Inappropriate I tell you.
OK, so --What else has no R&D budget in the SPF >? venting a bit, sorry. but really now...
--Steve
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