Dub Skillz '11 Escalade ESV

[Clean07Burb]

Pardon the dirt. I'm omw to the carwash this pm.

Beautiful! How do they perform? Do you plan on adding the rear kit anytime down the road?

 

[guy from norcal]

Nice choice of wheels and drop.

 

[M1O9NSTER]

Beautiful! How do they perform? Do you plan on adding the rear kit anytime down the road?

Performance is phenomenal. Factory brakes on these trucks are absolute garbage. With the Wilwoods, it's night and day difference. You can use these things repeatedly and aggressively without fade. With the current set up, it really handles more like a decent car than a 3 ton truck. I can totally recommend the 16" Wilwood BBK.

Eventually, I will do the rear set as well. My rule is, any part that wears out, gets replaced with a performance part. So when they tell me I can no longer pad slap the rears, It'll be time.

 

[Clean07Burb]

Performance is phenomenal. Factory brakes on these trucks are absolute garbage. With the Wilwoods, it's night and day difference. You can use these things repeatedly and aggressively without fade. With the current set up, it really handles more like a decent car than a 3 ton truck. I can totally recommend the 16" Wilwood BBK.

Eventually, I will do the rear set as well. My rule is, any part that wears out, gets replaced with a performance part. So when they tell me I can no longer pad slap the rears, It'll be time.

Nice. I'd love to upgrade my fronts to Wilwood's, but man, that $2k is hard to part with! For now I went with the Baer EradiSpeed +1 kit, which gave me a caliper relocation bracket and 15" front drilled and slotted rotors. Stops really good now, but I'm sure the Wilwood's would put them to shame. I'd love to drive someone's truck with the Wildwood kit. That would more than likely give me the push I need to just order the damn things and get it over with already!

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Also, if you're impressed with the current handling as you say, try adding a set of aftermarket sway bars. I just added a set of Eibach oversized bars with Energy Suspension polyurethane end links in the front and the correct shortened DJM links in the rear which reposition the sway bar and bring it back to the correct angle, and the difference in handling is literally night and day. With the bars, the 2/3 drop, the 305/40/22 Toyo Proxes ST2's, and new shocks and struts, my truck handles incredibly well.

 

[M1O9NSTER]

Nice. I'd love to upgrade my fronts to Wilwood's, but man, that $2k is hard to part with! For now I went with the Baer EradiSpeed +1 kit, which gave me a caliper relocation bracket and 15" front drilled and slotted rotors. Stops really good now, but I'm sure the Wilwood's would put them to shame. I'd love to drive someone's truck with the Wildwood kit. That would more than likely give me the push I need to just order the damn things and get it over with already!

---------- Post added at 02:38 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:29 PM ----------

Also, if you're impressed with the current handling as you say, try adding a set of aftermarket sway bars. I just added a set of Eibach oversized bars with Energy Suspension polyurethane end links in the front and the correct shortened DJM links in the rear which reposition the sway bar and bring it back to the correct angle, and the difference in handling is literally night and day. With the bars, the 2/3 drop, the 305/40/22 Toyo Proxes ST2's, and new shocks and struts, my truck handles incredibly well.

Forgot to mention, I did the Belltech front and rear sway bars when I dropped it.
Yes it hauls balls around corners....for a big ass truck.

 

[01Konvict]

Any air ride suspension messages from that drop?

 

[GalaxyBlackEsky]

Nice start. I love my Wilwoods. Like you said when stuff wears out its time for upgrades. I haven't done my rears either and prob wont. I might just do Baer 14's with stock calipers just to somewhat match.

 

[M1O9NSTER]

Any air ride suspension messages from that drop?

Yeah. Major service suspension errors with all passive components. Removed easily with a strutmasters module. Takes about 20 min to install with 4 positap connectors.

 

[01Konvict]

Thanks! Got any link to the kit you used?

 

[M1O9NSTER]

Thanks! Got any link to the kit you used?

It's a little pricey, but it definitely works and it's easy to install.

http://www.strutmasters.com/product...suv-suspension-warning-light-fix-module-gc2m/

If you do not fix the error code, you will enter nanny mode and the truck will be limited to 80 mph.