Swift's at it again - Wilwood 14" 6-Pot BBK for WRX - Fit to BRZ
 

You may have seen my initial Wilwood BBK job here:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32594

Where I fitted a 4-Pot Wilwood kit to the BRZ. It has worked great, absolute great bang for the buck. Probably the best idea for autocross and great for street/HPDE use.

Anyways, I found a steal on a set of gently used Wilwood brakes for the 08+ WRX. I should have time to try the install next weekend. I'm running 18s and it appears everything will bolt right up. More to follow...

6-Piston Calipers
355mm x 32mm rotors

Details from the Wilwood Site: (unfortunately they are the narrow-lites which is a smaller pad area versus the other kit)
http://www.wilwood.com/BrakeKits/Bra...%2c+except+STI

Fitted on 2011 WRX:
http://i.imgur.com/tmjgrF5.png

Beautiful! Just fits inside of those wheels. mmmmmm

Looks great!

I initially thought I bought the regular BBK 14" which has a 34% larger pad area (relative to the narrow-lite), which is why I got so excited. Turns out this is the same caliper Wilwood uses on the BRZ kit but with a 14" rotor instead of the 12.9" and 32mm width versus 28mm.

Finally! That's going to be a better kit than the original one. :)

It uses the exact same bracket as the BRZ kit, it's going to come down to will it clear my wheel! Stay tuned!

On today's episode of "Will it clear?!"...

Question for those who have done similar conversions. Instead of swapping the bleeder screws can I just swap the calipers? For example use the driver's side on the passenger side? That would keep the outer caliper and bleeder screw in the same position.

http://i.imgur.com/srjmdPB.png

Not if the pistons are differentially bored.

- Andy

Yup, given the orientation of the pistons, it looks like I will need to swap the bleeder screw. What's the process, just unscrew both and swap? I assume both inner and outer?

http://i.imgur.com/e2NZy1m.png

They are.

I had a feeling. :)

- andy

I plan to test fit this evening. Sorry for the dirty pics, I didn't have time to clean them up:

http://i.imgur.com/ThtD6Dv.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tagAKFb.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/liulSDD.jpg

....and they clear! Now to find time to install them:

http://i.imgur.com/SLiYB1Q.png

http://i.imgur.com/2Vt657f.png