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Old 11-03-2013, 06:54 PM
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I decided to order and install the Wilwood 14" front rotor kit - designed for the Backdraft but not part of Backdraft's Wilwood front/rear conversion kit. They still provide on the 13" rotors for the front. Rear kit remains the same. You will need the larger 18" wheels however for the 14" rotors. Install was not that hard - it just took me the weekend about 3-4 hours per rotor/caliper including bleeding...oh yes, bleeding...Boy do I hate the stock rigid tubing and flared fitting - it took a lot of cuss'n to get the front hose to rigid done.

Here is the link to the pictures of the assembly. You will also see the comparison of the rotors as compared to the originals...Those 14" rotors are monsters.

http://narasimhalu.smugmug.com/Machi...ckdraft-Brakes

Contact me and I can send you the Word doc with all the part numbers and built-in hyperlinks to the Wilwood site and datasheets.

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