Halo white 17' Toyota 86 featherweight build

[SuperTom]

You may be asking what happened to my ultra lightweight wilwood setup. Long story short when to bleed brakes a week ago.
-Stripped both rear caliper bleed bolts, Stripped caliper mounting thread.
-Upfront snapped bleeder bolt inside caliper, all rubber piston gaskets were torn.
Would have to do a complete rebuild on front wilwood calipers, replace both 2pot rear calipers

Saw on GR86 forums Rockauto was selling remanufactured PP calipers real cheap. Could have done all front and rear new for about $1200 with regular centric rotors.

With the money saved decided to splurge and get Girodisc 2pc rotors all around. Everything including Powerstop Extreme Street pads, Mach V Stainless lines put me ~ $3k for everything.

Spray painted and 2k Cleared the calipers hopefully they hold up. Also used leftover clear on the rotor hats hopefully to protect and they look good shiny.




REAR SETUP:
Ill start with the rear vs my 2pot setup. PP Calipers are about 1/2 lighter due to the 2pots using an adapter.




Rotors are the same weight as tiny single vane rotors 11.25lbs



Rear pads on the outer side need to be trimmed using these rotors. Wasnt as hard as it sounds too a few minutes with harbor freight cutoff tool.




FRONT SETUP:

First this is going to add a ton of weight up front unfortunately vs the WRX Wilwood kit.

Calipers PP 10.25 lbs each, Wilwood 6lbs with bracket. Combinded both sides 8.5 lbs gained



Rotors Girodisc 16.5lbs (pic didnt load), Wilwood 10.5. Gained 12lbs of reciprocating mass


The Wilwood kit took 30lbs off the front vs basic stock brakes. With the PP setup still lighter than stock but only lose about 9.5 lbs.

Fitment inside Konig Hypergram 17x9 +40 is great. Had about 1/2" between caliper and barrel. Could stick full finger between caliper and spokes

[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Damn 30 lb is a good chunk of weight. I still have my factory brakes, would love to drop all that weight. So that's including rotors and everything? Cause I think in terms of rotating mass - based on my research - there wasn't much (if anything?) to lose. Is that right?

[ADMINPLSAUTHMYACCOUNT]

Wow I would've prefered to get mine off rockauto, I ended up going with some random ebay seller.


I can't seem to find them on their site now though?

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

Damn 30 lb is a good chunk of weight. I still have my factory brakes, would love to drop all that weight. So that's including rotors and everything? Cause I think in terms of rotating mass - based on my research - there wasn't much (if anything?) to lose. Is that right?

Well look at the pic the wilwood rotor is 10lbs I think stock non-PP is 20lbs that is what I am comparing. So 20lbs reciprocating mass the other 10 came from lighter calipers. I will mostly likely figure out how to rebuild my calipers than sell that kit cheap to someone

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by ADMINPLSAUTHMYACCOUNT

Wow I would've prefered to get mine off rockauto, I ended up going with some random ebay seller.


I can't seem to find them on their site now though?

This is what I got they are still available. Just add Centric blanks and stainless lines and you have a cheap BB kit

[SuperTom]

Quick mods today did the maxspeedingrods brace which is great that is aluminum and only 1.5 lbs. If installed normally the decal would be upsidedown so I just installed with the backside facing.

Also did half of the whiteline inserts for those bushings. Honestly dont see how they do much since they are just sandwiched between metal bushing and washer already there. Still need to do the front ones but am going to have to remove all my gas sheild aero ect to get to them.

[HotlavaFRSGT86]

Originally Posted by SuperTom

Did 2 mods today first added vents to the front skid plate to let heat out from the headers. This older post was my inspiration his is much cleaner than mine using a harborfreight cutoff wheel https://www.ft86club.com/forums/show...9&postcount=10




Also went to home depot and grabbed an aluminum sheet. On its own way too flimsy but I connected it overtop the existing fiberglass trans cover. Then I cut out the area for the trans cooling vents. Added 1.75lbs




I also just ordered 3mm thick alumalite to replace the two coroplast panels I have over the driveshaft tunnel. I may have to buy one for this mod I just did if I hear wobbly aluminum sounds

You know this is a great idea, i may have to get out my grinder and add some of my own to let some heat out from my Jdl, its coated so doesn't get too damn hot, but you know. I will do mine a little different though. 2 thumbs up man!!

[HotlavaFRSGT86]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

Damn 30 lb is a good chunk of weight. I still have my factory brakes, would love to drop all that weight. So that's including rotors and everything? Cause I think in terms of rotating mass - based on my research - there wasn't much (if anything?) to lose. Is that right?

Hey man i did the Wilwood kit this year and the unsprung savings is 13.2 lbs, 28 lbs altogether. I did the Fhi rear 2 pot swap to go with it and saved another 2.2 lbs. I also swapped all the Dot 3 fluid to synthetic Dot 4. I tell you what the car feels spectacular now. What a difference fixed calipers make over sliders.

[villainous_frx]

Originally Posted by SuperTom

This is what I got they are still available. Just add Centric blanks and stainless lines and you have a cheap BB kit

Could you post a photo of the front caliper pistons? This part # leads back to the same as STI calipers (44/40) which are different than the BRZ (40/40).

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by villainous_frx

Could you post a photo of the front caliper pistons? This part # leads back to the same as STI calipers (44/40) which are different than the BRZ (40/40).

I believe the ones I got are STI calipers. You flip the bleeder screws on these so the 40 side piston is the leading piston. I guess I thought they were the same as PP calipers Im still happy with them nonetheless

[SuperTom]

First the Hotchik Strut bar is made of aluminum so its only 3.5lbs, only 1.5 gain over the stock bar. Its all one piece and has a connection point to one of the strut bolts. This would be a 10/10 mod if it connected to all the strut mount bolts and had the MC Brace. Got this used from a forum member these are discontinued.







Another big mod today was cutting my diffuser and replacing it with XL Hexagon mesh. Mainly wanted a way for trapped air to escape with all my underbody plates. I didnt invent this another forum member did this a few years ago this is just my version to mate with the verus diffuser.




Near perfect circles were challenging



Theres alot of open space between the exhaust tips open to any ideas there



Let me know ur thoughts I may paint the mesh the same as the dark grey on the rest of the car the shiny metal stands out alot. Also as you can see I painted the body behind the bumper body color yellow I may repaint it flat black to hide that area.

[RToyo86]

I like that a lot more than open diffuser look. Grey paint would be a hit more subtle which is more my style.

[SuperTom]

Originally Posted by RToyo86

I like that a lot more than open diffuser look. Grey paint would be a hit more subtle which is more my style.

Thats what I was thinking + the Exhaust and sway bars ect would be more visible through a darker mesh. Right now the shine blocks everything out.

[SuperTom]

painted the mesh matching charcoal and the background flat black




Also added some decals to the brembo brakes