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Originally Posted by Sparky67
Wilwood's kits are designed for race cars, which are bit lighter than your typical street car. I used to have a set of Aerospace components brakes for my 67 Camaro and it was really light as compared to the Baer brakes. I was also impressed on how Baer kits supply everything you need to install the brakes on your car. When I got the Aerospace components kit, I had to buy a master cylinder, special braided brake linkes (that was only available at the manufacturer), etc.
Jeff
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Depends which Wilwoods you buy. They have a *lot* of stuff built for the drag crowd which emphasizes weight savings-- as such the calipers are quite flexible and braking power suffers greatly. Given their intended purpose though this is considered acceptable. Unfortunately this is what most people have had Wilwood experience with and as such knock their performance when tasked with street or other hard use.
However, they do have a lot of good calipers for street and road race use... there is a huge difference between say an SL6R or GTIII caliper designed for road racing and the super light weight and flimsy calipers meant for Drag use.
Baer's 1-piece 6-pistons are nice; they eliminate a lot of bridge flex because they're so stiff and therein lies the cost. Lots of machining needed to do a 1-piece caliper. Wilwood and most other calipers are 2-piece with crossbolts which is cheaper to manufacture.