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Old Feb 9, 2006 | 10:28 AM
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i thought about doing that, but i would rather go directly to something better right off hand. i talked to the guy that runs fastbrakes for a long time and he said that they will fit but only with certian offsets. to use the factory 15 inch wheels, you have to use a 3mm spacer which he will through in for free as long as you specify it. everything that i have heard bad about the wilwood brakes is that they fall apart alot, but that is because the basic civic design does not have dust seals and they just wear out too quickly. The ones the he uses are made for VW and for some reason the have the dust seals which should make them relaible. The only thing i noticed is that it looks like the pad surface seems to be pretty small. If you go to the fast brakes site nad compare the 11 inch kit with the dust seal calipers, to the 11 inch kit with the intagra calipers, it looks like the pad surface is actually bigger with the intagra calipers. It is only a picture, but even if the pad surface was the or smaller, i would think the 4 piston compared to the stock 1 caliper, would make that up plus extra stopping power. the only thing i know about brakes is what i have learned myself, i have never been told anything about them, so all my information my thoughts, so i could easily be wrong
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