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Turbo-Brown
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Thu May 12, 2005 8:13 pm
Well, I hope it's all worth it!
Just spent over Ԛ£600 on control arms (the Ԛ£40 gsf ones) brakes hoses, a pair of 6mm wheel spacers and a Wilwood 4pot big brake kit
I like big brakes

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Thu May 12, 2005 8:19 pm
Alex lets have some pix off the wilwoods plz dude

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Thu May 12, 2005 8:26 pm
nice one mate! spent Ԛ£350 getting zimmz all round on the touring-well worth it!
those Wilwoods are gonna be soo goooood!

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Thu May 12, 2005 8:56 pm
ant wrote:Alex lets have some pix off the wilwoods plz dude

sweeet man!
just wanted to ask you about pics

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Turbo-Brown
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Thu May 12, 2005 9:18 pm
I'll put some piccies up as soon as I get 'em

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E30BeemerLad
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Thu May 12, 2005 9:20 pm
An E30 with brakes..
mmmmmm, I wonder what that feels like?

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Thu May 12, 2005 9:26 pm
lets all email Ian332i, his are monster !
we had a thread about wilwoods a while back.... seems a good deal for defo , very interested to see what the results are like.
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Thu May 12, 2005 9:49 pm
top man. get pics up quicky
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Thu May 12, 2005 10:06 pm
Demlotcrew wrote:

says he who has lowered his car and won't show us!
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Thu May 12, 2005 10:11 pm
Simon13 wrote:Demlotcrew wrote:

says he who has lowered his car and won't show us!
maybe he didnt really do it...
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E30BeemerLad
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Thu May 12, 2005 10:18 pm
Jhonno, what is your car, 320iS?
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Thu May 12, 2005 10:51 pm
Jhonno wrote:Simon13 wrote:Demlotcrew wrote:

says he who has lowered his car and won't show us!
maybe he didnt really do it...
maybe.........................................
when can i see this project car as i live so close!!!
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William
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Fri May 13, 2005 1:37 am
Jhonno wrote:Simon13 wrote:Demlotcrew wrote:

says he who has lowered his car and won't show us!
maybe he didnt really do it...
sorry, seen it and he did really do it

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Fri May 13, 2005 9:56 am
Torbo, where did you get the Wilwood kit from please?
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Turbo-Brown
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Fri May 13, 2005 1:34 pm
Hi Ben,
I ordered the brake kit from
www.rallydesign.co.uk.
It's only a 280mm disc with the 4-pot calipers which only just fits in my 15" MSW wheels according to the dims they supplied me with (I'll post them up if anyone's interested)
However, I've got a set of 310mm discs for the GT6 which has got 17" image wheels much like yours and to be honest, they don't really fill the wheel
Sure they'll be up to the task though

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Fri May 13, 2005 2:22 pm
I dont really need to change my brakes as the Zimmerman's do a perfectly good enough job. It's just that with 18x12 & 18x9 wheels they look tiny and it's actually qyuiet embarrassing at shows that why i want to change them
Thanks for the link

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jmc330i
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Fri May 13, 2005 3:46 pm
Did you get the mounts for the calipers with the kit?
When I looked at the Wilwood kit from Rally Design back in 2003/2004 they said you needed to make custom brackets yourself. That was the 280mm kit with the fully dust sealed Midilite calpiers.
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Turbo-Brown
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Sat May 14, 2005 12:09 am
Must admit I just hope i do get the mounts.
The last kit i got from them was a standard kit for the 13" GT6 and that came with discs, calipers, fixings and machined billet mounts for the calipers so I'm expecting the E30 kit to have the same.
Will let you know as soon as they turn up

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Turbo-Brown
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Mon May 16, 2005 1:59 pm
Woo!
Bonus, they called to say they've run out of plain discs so they're doing me a set of drilled ones instead

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Mon May 16, 2005 6:35 pm
Which wheels are you using ?
Did you go for the 280mm discs or the bigger ones ?
If i can scrape enough money together i'd like to get some big brakes.
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Turbo-Brown
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Mon May 16, 2005 9:37 pm
I've got a set of cross-spoke MSW wheels which are 15". I went for the 280mm kit (didn't know they did a bigger one

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Think for less than Ԛ£500 they're bloody good value!
Do have to buy the pads seperately though.
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Mon May 16, 2005 9:40 pm
Turbo-Brown wrote:
Do have to buy the pads seperately though.
Get one set for the road and one for track days

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Fri May 20, 2005 7:15 pm
Turbo-Brown wrote:
Do have to buy the pads seperately though.
Do you have to use the Wilwood pads or can any aftermarket pad be used?
Got any pics yet??
James
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