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
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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
Easy A/G-body (and F-body) Brake Upgrades with Wilwood
Improve Your Rad GM Ride with Simple Bolt-ons General Motors made so many cars back in the day that parts for them are easy to come by and inexpensive. You... Read More
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
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
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
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
Figuring Pedal Ratios in Bell Crank Systems
Finding the brake pedal ratio for most vehicles is easy enough with a tape measure and calculator. The hardest part is usually getting the tape up under the dashboard where... Read More
Hydraulic Hand Brakes and Cutting Brakes
Over the years, Wilwood has been involved in nearly every form of motorsports, at levels from student, to amateur, to professional, and we've brought our engineering expertise to each. Because... Read More
Pedal Ratios and How to Find Them
Decades ago, four-wheel drum brakes were standard, power-assisted brakes were an extra-cost option, and depending on how old your project vehicle is, disc brakes may not have even been offered.... Read More