Wilwood Powerlites, ok with no seals

[pigeondave]

Hi,

I have a Fury and am thinking of upgrading the brakes from the standard ford escort ones to Wilwood powerlites.

What are the views on using these for road use with out the seals.

I understand that there will be little improvement in breaking, and that the gains are in unsprung weight.

The car is used all year round as long as it is dry (some times get caught out in the rain).

The car lives on the driveway under a cover.

Should I be looking at the Wilwoods with the seals?

Thanks

[CorseChris]

I have Billet Dynalites on my car (no seals on those) and have been using the car for 4 years now, mainly dry use but I do get caught out from time to time. Car is stored in an ordinary garage most of the time. No problems at all so far.


BUT...given a choice, why not go for a caliper with seals? (there wasn't much choice when I built mine - things have improved a lot in recent years). Have you looked at HiSpec as well??

HTH

[pigeondave]

Reason behind the Wilwood ones, is that there's talk of a group buy, and the guy is trying to get an idea of numbers.

[FlatPack]

I've got Wilwoods without dust seals too and haven't had any problems.

For the sort of use these cars tend to see I don't think it's an issue really.

[GreenV8S]

I'm using Superlites (not Powerlites, but similar in that they don't have seals), they've been on the car for years and around 100,000 miles all year round and still fine.

[ruaricoles]

Ditto here; I had Wilwood Dynalite calipers on my Fury and never had any issues in 8 years and loads of miles in all sorts of weather, and for the first few years I had the car it lived outside too.

Ruari