B-body spindles&wilwood brakes

[lt1chevelle]

dose anyone know if wilwood brakes will work with b-body spindles?

[JRouche]

Yes,, Go to their website. You can plug in any vehicle you want. Comes up with ALL the info you need. JR

Dunno which B platform you have but here is a 66 impala for example
http://info.wilwood.com/BrakeKits.aspx?year=1966&make=Chevrolet&model=Impala

[lt1chevelle]

maybe im blind but i didnt see anything about b-body spindles. let me clear up my question i have wilwoods already on stock Abody spindles do you need to buy Bbody brakes in order to use the Bbody spindles?

[ProdigyCustoms]

Your A Body brakes WILL NOT work on B Body spindles. I will have to check into it deeper, but I think almost noting will work from your A Body kit.

[JRouche]

maybe im blind but i didnt see anything about b-body spindles. let me clear up my question i have wilwoods already on stock Abody spindles do you need to buy Bbody brakes in order to use the Bbody spindles?

No, yer not blind :) I thought you were asking about a B-platform cars (spindles). And that would be a Impala like the link I showed.

And A-platform cars, like a Chevelle are gonna be diff. Wilwood site has it all. And even better. When you click on one of their packages it gives a breakdown of the parts used. Hubs, hats, rotors and brackets.

I guess Im confused. The link I posted was a B-platform car, that should work with B-platform spindles no???? JR

[Apogee]

Are you looking at swapping the late-model (91-96) B-body spindles like with Global West Negative Roll System and wondering what will swap over, like Frank suggested? We refer to those applications more generically as a GM "tall-spindle" since it actually has the same geometry as the second generation F-body spindle and so many other applications through the 80's, I won't list them all here.

The early B-body applications, 58-64 and 65-70, use a modular spindle with bolt-on steering arm, but aren't popular swap items. The early to mid-70's B-body spindles are more or less 1/2 ton truck spindles and use a larger SET5 inner wheel bearing and 5x5 pattern, so not a hot swap candidate either unless you're building a roundy-round car and want the heavy bearings, brakes and 5x5 pattern.

I would assume that at least the Wilwood mounting brackets will be different, and odds are that the hubs are different as well due to the relatively large difference in flange offsets between the applications. The spindle pins are virtually the same, so it's possible that they use the same hubs and just live with the track width changes that I know some of the Wilwood kits have.

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