Grooved Discs, combined with decent pads, is your best solution. I had excellent results reducing fade from both my 405, and my current TI, with decent pads and grooved discs.
Those look like excellent prices to me - order em at once. Get the fluid replaced with some DOT 5.1 at the same time they're fitted.
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No - only if you use em on a very heavy/quick car - in which case you're a fool, and you should be using Redstuff pads.
Grooved discs are excellent - it's Drilled discs that do sod-all.
Of course - what else would happen ? It takes 5 seconds to scrape em clean every few months.
I see. I've never tried them, but I'd heard people say that happened. Not going to be a problem on my Ka if I get some then :P.
Depends if you've got steel or alloys...
And a cushion on the parcel shelf as standard :). I agree though, everything should come with vented disks IMO. Like half the Kas did.
Planning and preparation. Don't go tanking up to stuff so you have to brake hard.
Looking for a pair of them for mine myself. They're suffering ATM going down Garrowby Hill every night.
Anticipation.
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Steve.
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They improve feel and reliability, granted. They also don't swell up under very high pressures, hence improving efficiency. If the fluid can take the easy route by swelling up the brake pipes instead of pushing the pistons, it'll take the easy way out. Added advantage being if you can feel what the brakes are doing, you're less likely to just stamp on the fookers.
Pete M
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Bingo! I've not set fire to a set of brake pads for years, and I drive faster than ever before now.. When the mood takes me.
Pete M
I'm almost always in the area - fancy a meet??? Dervy???? Conor????
I had em for years on my 125bhp Pug 405, and they were excellent - you can't go wrong at £25 a set ! I'm now running Redstuff on the TI, which are also excellent, but due to the TI sharing brake-pads with the Honda NSX (no, really, and they're MASSIVE) they cost me £60 a set !
Bleurgh - ditch your steelies ASAP :) I've actually never had a problem with the grooves filling up, on any of my cars, but you're right in that it can happen - it's over a long period though.
doh :(
Can't be arsed. Too broke as well. I can't even afford air for my tyres :P.
Me too, but theres plenty of room to get my arm through my 16" six spokes to clean the brake discs :)
-- Dan
Stick to sell/eat burgers or learn to drive properly then you obviously over brake and trail the brakes into corners
What do "floating disks" (sic) have to do with it ?
It is the most common cause of the type of fade where the pedal goes to the floor
Pad area has sweet fa to do with it disk surface area and diameter has. But then again I would expect sense from anyone daft enough to water cool a PC CPU.
Only the fade inside your head, grooved discs can have little or no effect on fade, the grooves are about clearing water, dust and gas from between the pad and disc --- on a Rover the will definitely improve wet braking as they tend to sufer from crap building up on the disc on wet motorways.
Not even sure if they are more reliable, end fittings on braided tend to be a bit dodgey. I certainly wouldn't fit them to a road car if an OEM spec hose E marked was available.
Good sound advice
EBC are one of the few brake pad companies that make available proper information on the performance of the pads they make --- 10% better coefficient of friction and much improved fade ressistance. As for discs one lump of SG cast iron is much like another so there is little point in spending big money on disc unless you are converting to bigger or vented discs.
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