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Like many people, I fell in love with the performance brake system from Arizona Z Car. The Wilwood brakes are great. I spoke at length with Dave from AZC and he promised me a working park brake solution (required to pass inspections here) for the kit “in a couple of weeks... I ordered the front and rear setup and patiently waited for the park brake solution. It never appeared. Two years of waiting and almost monthly calls and emails always ended up with “another two weeks”... At this point I became fed up with waiting and set about to find my own solution. After dealing with Silvermine Motors on some other key pieces, I noticed that Edan had developed a similar system for the rear brakes. I contacted him and ordered a set of his custom adapter plates and a set of the park brakes along with the custom park brake cable and stainless brake lines. There are a couple steps to modifying the AZC system to fit but the end result is a functional park brake on the AZC system!

I know that there will probably be a large backlash from the community but its my opinion and experience on here, so don't get all hot and bothered from this. I was looking at a rear disc upgrade for my 280z (240sx brakes upgrade). And the price seemed ok enough that it prompted me to buy seeing that most people had good things to say about the company. While I was at it I purchased the 1" Wilwood tandem brake Master cylinder also so that I could put good power to the new brakes and see some improvement. I waited the 5 odd days for it to arrive in KS and did a check on all the parts and pieces. I immediately noticed that there were 2 left side calipers. And not one of each the right and left. This didn't make any sense since there were the correct adapters for the calipers, but not the right calipers themselves. I called Edan and asked if he could ship out the correct one and I would send the extra left one back. I also asked that he ship it same day since I needed this project done over the weekend to goto work on Monday. He told me that he couldn't do that, which I felt was very crappy. since he was the one that hand packed it he said, and made the mistake but wouldn't provide me with excellent customer service by covering for his mistake. I shipped back the caliper and waited another 5 days... Drove a rental car until the next weekend rolled around... I get my caliper complete the swap and decided to tackle the master cylinder since the lines were already filled with air. I removed the check valve springs and such and noticed that one of the seats for the front brakes had a gouge in it. and where it seats in the outlet also had a gouge, like it had been dropped or forced into place, crushing it slightly. I didn't know if it was that big an issue, so I proceeded to install it. sure enough it leaked under pressure. I thought maybe it was the hardline. So I replaced it. still leaked. Emailed him asking if he could send me a new one and then I would switch them out, send him back the defective one. Edan said that he would have to see if Wilwood would give him one in exchange and all this. --------------------------------------- As an update he is sending me a replacement wilwood MC and cover the shipping for the returned part. So its nice that we could work something out.