4 pot kit fitted to the Evo

[Rob_]

Brake wise apart form uprated pads and disks there arent any "off the shelf" brake kits available for the evo. A company called Freaky Parts has been making brake conversion kits for the FTO for quite a while and decided to venture into the early evo market.

Im the first in the UK to use the kit

Kit consists of:

Wilwood Dynalight 4 Pot Calipers
Custom machined Brackets
Ferrodo DS3000 Race Pads
Evo 4 294mm discs redrilled for 4 stud. (Standard Evo 3 is 275mm)

The calipers are nearly half the weight of the cast 2 pots!

Went on without any hiccups except i had to grind the "W" from Wilwood on the rear of the caliper. Wasnt hard though.

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[T. 12 E E D.]

Noice that's some stopping power

 

[MaLicE]

why did you have to grind the rear of the caliper?

also do they have dust seals? i know wilwood do some good calipers but i thought they didnt have dust seals so made them a bit impractical for the road as you have to strip clean and rebuild pretty often?

 

[Scott S]

Nice, a lad I know has just put GTO calipers and discs to a Proton GTI without a huge amount of modding. He has said it makes a fair difference and is more progressive braking.

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The relevance of that is that the early evo calipers fit onto the proton, so the GTO conversion may be one fir eay evo owners to look into.

 

[Rob_]

There is already a GTO conversion available. It weighs a bomb though!!

These are much lighter. Less rotating mass = quicker

Malice - The calipers have wilwood printer on the rear the washer for the banjo just covers part of the W meaning it wont seat properly. They are a universal caliper so on some cars banjo bolts you probably dont have to.

They dont have dust seals no but its only used at a weekend and is becoming more of a track toy.

Its easily got around though the dust only becomes a problem when the pistons retracts fully back into the caliper as it would drag crap in with it. THis is only done when changing pads so most people just buy new piston o rings and change them when changing the pad. It aint an issue tbh

 

[MaLicE]

ahhh cool, i understand now, were they expensive?

 

[Rob_]

ahhh cool, i understand now, were they expensive?

The calipers range from £100 - £130 each depending on application.

 

[Gaz.]

Sweet, 4 pots rule, even my crappy iron ones.

 

[JB]

Very nice! I have Wilwoods on my Clio and they are excellent!

 

[Christopher]

Nice upgrade!

 

[jayxx83]

294mm on an evo? How much does the car weigh?

 

[maynard]

Nice work!

 

[DB.]

Look sweet. Would love some cheeky Wilwoods under mine!