2005 Pontiac Gto

The brake pads were then temporarily installed. (By the way, Wilwood uses a cool quick-change pad system for the rear brakes that just involves popping a retainer clip [gold] in and out.) The objective here is to ensure that the edges of the pads line up with the outer edge of the rotor, which in our case they almost did; though just about exactly even with the edge of the rotor, we opted to try and remove one shim from each caliper mounting stud just to be safe. After all, that last tiny bit of brake pad that might be hanging off the edge of the rotor could affect braking performance. However, going to only one shim causes the caliper to be way too close to the rotor (almost invisible clearance),so we had to stick with two.

2005 Pontiac GTO - Speed Slayer

The brake pads were then temporarily installed. (By the way, Wilwood uses a cool quick-change pad system for the rear brakes that just involves popping a retainer clip [gold] in and out.) The objective here is to ensure that the edges of the pads line up with the outer edge of the rotor, which in our case they almost did; though just about exactly even with the edge of the rotor, we opted to try and remove one shim from each caliper mounting stud just to be safe. After all, that last tiny bit of brake pad that might be hanging off the edge of the rotor could affect braking performance. However, going to only one shim causes the caliper to be way too close to the rotor (almost invisible clearance),so we had to stick with two. View Related Article

2005 Pontiac Gto

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