Upgrade Brake Master Cylinder

[NoHachi]

Larger BMC's do absolutely nothing besides making it more difficult to appropriately modulate the brake at the threshhold. Putting in a larger BMC isn't exactly rocketscience and is certainly something that toyota techs could have come up with in 1940 even.

This is the point: Through a well maintained stock brake system with good pads, it is more then possible to apply enough pressure to the brakepads to overcome the tires stickyness..You can apply all the pressure you want, but when the tires let go, you go. Thus the whole brake system is limited by the grip of the tires, not by a BMC or pressure. There is one catch though: the "well maintained"stock system is a coin frase that is completely unappropriate for 90% of the hachi's out there..So you start upgrading everything around the original problem, without solving it.

Happy braking!

One other example: At the volvo forums people were 100% sure that the stock 360 brake system was severely undersized for its task. They all dreamt of bigger brakes and exotic callipers. When I told them that me and Ivan drive around the whole day at the track, without ever experiencing problems they just told me that is impossible..Fine with me: the impossible little brake system is extremely easy to modulate and outbrakes lighter cars with more aggressive pads.
As always: first make sure that your car is well maintained. Then tighten the nut behind the wheel.