{"id":2606,"date":"2017-09-30T03:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T03:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2025-02-16T00:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T00:45:54","slug":"safety-wire-and-rotor-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/safety-wire-and-rotor-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Wire and Rotor Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The stock Wilwood rotors have held up well, but really aren&#8217;t intended for extended track use. &nbsp;Earlier this year I upgraded to calipers with steel pistons and no dust boots, so when it came time to replace the rotors, I thought I&#8217;d upgrade that as well. The Spec-37 rotor is Wilwood&#8217;s Premium Grade, Heavy Wall Casting Rotor suitable for race use. &nbsp;The street rotors I was using came with round head, Torx Bolts. &nbsp;I saw a different bolt part number in the instructions, and found instead a bolt kit with drilled heads intended for use with safety wire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5409-1024x570.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5409-1024x570.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5409-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5409.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I love to buy specialty tools that only serve a specific purpose, I had to get this set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004EBYAKM\/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">safety wire twisting pliers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5410-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5410-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5410-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5410-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5410.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick search of the inter-webs turned up this video, which is now one of my all-time favorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mZ6uaRvFpXM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a little while later, belt-and-suspenders-level confidence. (Or Red Loctite and Safety Wire.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5412-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5412-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5412-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5412.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stock Wilwood rotors have held up well, but really aren&#8217;t intended for extended track use. &nbsp;Earlier this year I upgraded to calipers with steel pistons and no dust boots, so when it came time to replace the rotors, I thought I&#8217;d upgrade that as well. The Spec-37 rotor is Wilwood&#8217;s Premium Grade, Heavy Wall &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/diy\/safety-wire-and-rotor-hats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Safety Wire and Rotor Hats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[55,236,292],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","category-mini","tag-brake-rotors","tag-safety-wire","tag-wilwood"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_5410.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}