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Wilwood Rear Flexline Kits with Clamp or Weld On Axle Mount

Cars and trucks originally built with rear drum brakes (and even some factory disc brakes) on a solid axle typically have a rubber flexline in the center of the car... Read More

Posted on Oct 30, 2023

Wide 5 Race Hubs - Recommended Fastener Torque

Wilwood's innovative Wide 5 Starlite "bubble" hub is lightweight, strong, and affordable, which is why it is the standard used in many forms of motorsports and much imitated by our competitors.... Read More

Posted on Jun 19, 2023

What Are Staggered Rear Brakes?

Staggered brakes have nothing to do with tire stagger or staggered wheels. Tire stagger puts smaller diameter tires on the left side of the car in circle track racing to make it... Read More

Posted on Oct 11, 2022

How To Adjust the Wilwood Drum Internal Parking Brake

On occasion our tech line gets calls from people installing rear disc brakes with the internal parking brake who find, on initial installation, that the brake shoes drag. The Wilwood... Read More

Posted on Jul 01, 2022

Easy A/G-body (and F-body) Brake Upgrades with Wilwood

Improve Your Rad GM Ride with Better Braking General Motors made so many cars back in the day that parts for them are easy to come by and inexpensive. You may... Read More

Posted on Jun 23, 2022

Flaring Hard Brake Lines Made Easy

With Some Practice, You Can Flare Lines with Flair One of the most difficult little detail jobs in the mechanics of building a vehicle is creating custom length hard brake... Read More

Posted on May 24, 2022

Grassroots Motorsports Upgrade a 2004 Chevy Corvette Z06 Track Car With Wilwood Brakes

Recently, J.G. Pasterjak at Grassroots Motorsports upgraded his 2004 Chevy Corvette Z06 track driven car to Wilwood brakes front and rear. The front is a 14” floating rotor kit with... Read More

Posted on May 06, 2022

Chevy Hub Magazine Installs the Latest Forged Superlite Calipers on Their Z06 Corvette

Forging Ahead: Swapping Wilwood’s Forged Superlite Radial Mount Calipers on a C5 Corvette Z06 Excepted from the winter 2021 issue of Chevy Hub Magazine Words by Wes DuenkelPhotos by Wilwood Engineering Wilwood... Read More

Posted on Mar 03, 2022

How Does a Proportioning Valve Work? And How Do You Adjust It?

When setting up a street car for performance driving or converting a classic to disc brakes, it is essential to include an adjustable proportioning valve in your brake system. This... Read More

Posted on Aug 05, 2021

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