Silvermine dual rear caliper Wilwood upgrade

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So I picked a direction for my rear disc brakes on my 240z project. After talking with Cody we decided the best long term fit would be to just upgrade to Wilwoods all the way around. The rear Wilwood upgrade offered by Silvermine has a separate mechanical handbrake caliper along with a four piston hydraulic caliper.

New vented disc

BP10 street pads

New rotor versus the old rotor

To install the the parking brake caliper this yellow zinc plate needs to be removed. The caliper will then bolt to the aluminum adapter plate that is is supplied by Silvermine. The antisqueal shims on the rear of the parking brake pads have to be removed also. They are still a very tight fit over the rotor. So I took a 2" Rolok and dressed the pads down a hair. They just fit over the rotors now

There's a YouTube video I watched that shows slight reduced the diameter of the stub axle for clearance for the Rotor ID. I'm not sure I needed to but I did it anyway. I used a caliper to try to make them even all the way around.

 

 

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Also if you're starting from drums you will need to remove the all the drum brakes, shoes, hardware and the drum backing plate. To remove it whole, requires pulling the stub axle. The medieval method is to cut it in half.

I had to cut off my old adapter plates.They were an old design that I installed when I had the stub axles out. All the new designs only use 3 of the four backer plate holes