ERC Race Series - Euro Saloons & Sports

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My HMC 69 Mustang has Wilwood calipers and is A COD compliant and issued, i provided the H&C commission with information regarding the Wilwood caliper which was founded in around 1974. JFZ was found earlier(don't have exact date at hand) but even earlier was a company called "Edco Specialty Products" around 1968/9 which i believe got swallowed up by Wilwood. Also in the mix was Hurst-Airheart(early/mid 60's) along with AP out of England, all these calipers are suitable and considered "Free" for the era of vehicle which in my case is a 69 Mustang!! infact Edco built a 6 piston caliper for stock cars around 1969 and could have been used on a Mustang or Camaro(or any other) race car back then!!

When determining the rules for "Historic Muscle Cars" using the T&C rules as our guide line we needed to define the brake caliper ruling a bit more accurate for better understanding, we found that all these calipers as mentioned above had something in common, they were all a "2 piece bolt together design" and "lug mounting style" so with the help of the H&C commission it was excepted that as long as the caliper was of this design and from a "historic" manufacture such as Wilwood this would be OK, so depending what your said vehicle is i think you'll find the Wilwood caliper is acceptable as a historic replacement part.

By using the words "must be of a 2 piece bolt together design and Lug mount style" instantly eliminated ALL modern Mono block and Radial mount calipers which are commonly used on more modernized race cars these days, and although this shouldn't be needed to be pointed out, it helped most understand the correct caliper package to use.

I had been in-touch with Wilwood some years ago and they said there GNIII 6 piston grand national, Superlite and Dynalite calipers are there original traditional caliper since the companies inception, never redesigned over the years just refined. There other caliper packages are more recent technology and cant be considered Historic(post 12/77) so shouldn't be used. On top of all this i find there calipers represent excellent value for money and i've never had any major problems, been on my Mustang for 9 years now and are stopping a heavy car.

Hope this helps

Dale M