Just curious. Has anyone built one? In looking around it looks like this may not be cost effective to do, but was curious if anyone tried.
Oh yes. I have. Bought just the masters and the balance bar, and fab'd the rest.
Because "off the shelf" didn't exactly fit.
Clearly this would be a fun project. The tricky part is; can you trust your life and that of others with your mechanical design, fabrication and welding skills and knowledge?
I design and fabricate for a living and brake system components make me a little wary. When I designed and made suspension uprights/caliper mounts/brake rotor hats and specified a rotor design to made by Coleman I checked the safety factor on everything over and over. On the car's shakedown I cleared traffic on track and worked up to max braking with no one else around. I disassembled everything after every weekend the first season and inspected thoroughly.
So if you're 100% sure it's within your abilities and your time is cheap or free, have at it.
I think the Wilwood stuff is so good and so cheap (aimed at the oval track crowd) that it's a no-brainer.
I bought mine out of a wrecked circle track car - these things get banged up a lot around here and I think I paid $50 for the Wilwood pedal set, balance bar with 3 masters attached to it. They are only $300 or so new and masters are $60 each. Rebuild kits are $15.
So... unless it needed to be special for fitting in a strange space I can't see why you would.
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