Rear Brake Brackets

November 25, 2014 -

  After getting another set of brackets for the rear brakes, putting them on, and finding they didn't fit I was getting tired of the rear brakes.  (That set was identical to the old ones that didn't fit.)  Finally, November 24 I got the newly redesigned set of brackets.  I put them on the next day and there was some space between the caliper and the wheel. It wasn't a lot of space but enough and I'll take it.

  Here is a comparison of the new and old brackets.  The new one has a rounded edge as it goes around the bolt hole.  (In Wilwood's parlance, it is fully "radiused".)  The old one has a flat cuttoff as it gets to the bottom edge around the bolt hole.  In the below photo the bottom one marked PS is the old bracket.

  Lastly, there is a new code stamped into the redesigned bracket, 12364 LBB.

  I also put some more dynamat inside the passenger footbox and in the transmission tunnel.  I love how solid that stuff makes the car feel.  Oh and I found a wire nut in the driver's fuse box area that I replaced with a soldered connection.  Wire nuts = bad choice for this application.

Dash

November 14, 2014 -

  It's been a little while since I posted but I have been putting work in on the dash wiring and rear brakes.  On the latter I got a new set of brackets from Wilwood but it turned out that they were the same as the old ones and didn't give any new wheel clearance.  They should get the newly redesigned ones today and send them out to me sometime next week.
  On the dash I think I have a wiring problem with the hazard switch and I still have to wire up the wiper switch and I also need to figure out what to do with the red indicator light I have.  Apparently there's no check engine light feed in the this wiring harness.  I've read that some use this as an indicator of a fault in the alternator so maybe I'll do that.  After mounting the dash I turned on the engine today and it looked like all the gauges worked except for oil temperature.  I didn't drive anywhere so I also am not sure if the speedometer is working.  The gauge lights light up though.  I also want to point out that I corrected a bad wiring practice photographed earlier.  I replaced the wire nuts with the blade cutting style wire joiners that come with the kit.  Wire nuts wouldn't be good in a moving and vibrating environment.  Thank you for the help there Dave!

  Also, another note on the wiring in the back of the dash.  The kit comes with a bunch of short wires that I think are meant to daisy chain the grounds of the smaller gauges and the 12V gauge feeds.  Strangely though these short wires can only connect to one terminal on both ends so they're useless for daisy chaining.  Cut off the ends and crimp two wire ends into one of these connectors and then you can hop from one terminal to the next as drawn in the diagrams.