Brakes

[Ian.G]

Bad news about the job m8 - hope you get sorted soon

I have RX7 calipers on mine - it has re-drilled civic vented slotted rotors on it - would be nice to get some bells machined up so I can just get AP disks when they go (thats a long time away as they are new). Unsure of pads.

On the back I have S13 200sx disks and brackets to re-locate the stock rear calipers. Nothing special pads.

All lines are braided.

Stopping power is good, and you can really feel the limit of lockup quite well. At the mo there is bit of slack in the pedal so I need to flush the lines and get some SRF in there. Will check all the solid lines too as I've not had the car long - it was MOT'd about 2 weeks before I got it so hopefully they should be ok.

Master cylinder looks quite new too.

I think its quite important to experiment with brake components to improve feel. On our Westi we run AP Racing motorsport spec 4-pots with opposing piston sizes, separate bells and disks. The master cylinders are also matched to the rest of the brakes for improved feel. They are amazing. I've had AP 4 or 6 pots on 4 of my cars now.

T3 do a big brake conversion



these are dynalites - pretty good calipers. They also appear to have apposing piston sizes so some thought may have gone into choosing those. Ran a set of dynalights on an old westi (equal sized pistons) on our old XTR2. not bad.

Its easy to over-brake a car - and the hachi is light so I don't expect you should take things too far.