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Larger Rotors? Wilwood?

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#1 ·
I've been seeing and hearing a lot about Wilwood brakes lately, and I love the all black rotor they make. Does anyone know anything, or have any experience with Wilwood, or any other high-end rotors? I really like the drilled and slotted look. Also with the new wheels wouldn't mind putting a larger rotor on there.
 
#4 · (Edited)
The rotor is the big disc, which is silver and what you want to increase in size. The black item you speak of is the caliper, which holds the brake pads and squeezes the rotor to stop.

You can only put Wilwood brakes on if they make a setup that fits the bolt locations and clearance needed. My guess off hand is they don't make a big brake kit for the Jeep SRT, but maybe another vehicles specs will work.

2 things for you to realize. 1) bigger rotors and calipers = more weight on front nose. 2) Wilwood complete big brake setup = a lot of money for not much benefit, especially since it seems you are mostly worried about only the visual aspect of it.

SRT spent a lot of time on the braking dynamics of this vehicle, and the stock brakes are pretty massive as is. IMO, leave it alone, SRT knows more than us in this area with regards to optimal size and performance of the braking system.
 
#5 ·
Wilwood makes a black rotor as well - it looks pretty slick. I finally talked to Wilwood, they don't make a 15x1.34. They have a 16, that is why I was asking what would be involved but I realized I would prob have to replace the caliper as well which is more than I want to do.
 
#6 · (Edited)
If you want, you can take your OEM rotors off and coat them black, just be sure to mask off the area where you see pad contact. Really all you are going to notice that is black is the hub area where it mounts. The pad contacts almost the entire rotor surface. And yes, if you increase rotor size you must increase caliper size to cover the additional surface space.
 
#9 ·
I bet the braking surface on those don't remain black. That looks chappy imho. You do know that the jeep srt has the largest brakes of any SRT right? Yes...even the viper.
I think brembo makes an 8 piston upgrade for the fronts. ...but for like $4300.
Just get the brembo sport rotors in either drilled or slotted and some high performance pads.
 
#13 ·
They don't. They are coated, but after 100 miles or so the contact patch will be shiny silver just like any other rotor.
 
#12 ·
Don't waste your money on cheap crissdrilled/slotted rotors...even r1's aren't that great. ..and that came from another srt brother. He's changing his r1's for the brembo sports
 
#14 ·
If u order the brembo rotors, they might take awhile to get to you, just a heads up I ordered my cross drilled rotors from the tire rack over 40 days ago, probably closer to 50, and they still haven't shipped.

Not to sure what the hold up is, They have been on back order since I ordered, I was told originally told that it would be a two week wait... But still nothing.
 
#15 ·
If u order the brembo rotors, they might take awhile to get to you, just a heads up I ordered my cross drilled rotors from the tire rack over 40 days ago, probably closer to 50, and they still haven't shipped.

Not to sure what the hold up is, They have been on back order since I ordered, I was told originally told that it would be a two week wait... But still nothing.
Block ops have brembo in slotted or drilled for the WK2 why you didn't order it from them? Theey have a better customer service and many members here are dealing with him.
 
#17 ·
I'm the one that's changing out my crap R1 rotors for Brembo. Everywhere in the country is back ordered waiting on Brembo Italy to manufacture the front rotors. You will find many places that say in stock, but I assure you NO ONE has the front rotors in stock. They were slated to start shipping to the states from Brembo Italy in early Jan and now have been pushed back again until March or so.
 
#20 ·
I have done a tone of research and I am with Scott. Brembo is the ONLY way to go. All the others are crap. I personally do not love the gold color Brembos come with. I would prefer black my self. I am going to have them powder coated or possibly heat transfer coated (Check the link below). But anyone who wants Brembos, they are on national back order!

Automotive To Industrial And Anything In Between
 
#21 ·
Just got off the phone with CarId and the fronts are available but the rears are on back order. The estimated ship date they got from brembo is the 16th of February. Now if you go on eBay CarId has a listing for the rears but they said that is a mistake and they are going to update the listing as it should be for the fronts.
 
#22 ·
Scratch that... The guy I spoke to at CarId is incorrect. The fronts are on back order. Not the rears
 
#24 ·
I agree Scott. All I can do is wait :O)
 
#26 ·
Scott, I did call Buybreaks.com and they have zero info on them. It's just a wait and see thing.
 
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