Brakes

New brakes arrived this morning. w00t.

I've gone for a set of EBC's new Red Stuff Ceramic pads (this bloke seems to like them plenty

), and EBC Turbo Groove discs again.

I always used EBC's kit on my 405 (Turbo Groove discs and Greenstuff pads) and I was always plenty happy with them. When I bought the TI, the front discs were shafted. Peeps seemed to like the Black Diamond kit, so I went with those (drilled and grooved) and Redstuff v2 pads. Pads were excellent. Discs were ok at first, but now 18 months on (10,000-ish miles) they're shafted - huge cracks all over the place and warped to hell :)

Hopefully the EBC discs will fair a little better - they're not drilled, just grooved-and-dimpled.

Anyway, it's all getting fitted on Tuesday - hope they're good :)

Just out of interest, what else have people tried and liked ? The Mintex 1155s are always popular, but at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN POUNDS a pair (TI has *large* pads) they're not an option.

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supplied me the EBC kit at the rather cheap priceof £150 for both the discs *and* the pads - pretty good going when the discsalone are almost that much everywhere else !

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Nom
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red stuff pads hsould come with the bedding in coating they did a formula revamp a little while ago as well, so make sure you haven't got old stock how big are the discs then on the Ti?

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dojj

This big -

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Dan405

Yeah, there's a wierd "black panel" on the back of each pad. Do I need to stick this on the friction surface or something ? Or is it just an anti-squeal doofa ? I suspect the latter.

These are bang upto date :)

280mm, but they're not big enough. Stupid disc-behind-hub design means there's no central bell to the disc, so nowhere for all the heat to go :-/

The pads are shared with the Honda NSX, Accord Type-R, and Integra R - but the discs are different (shared with lesser Accords - the Accord Type-R comes with

5-stud 300mm jobbies).

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Nom

I'll refer you to the TR 1300fwd, that has discs behind the hubs. And a central bell on them as the hub isn't very deep. And the broken disc on my

1300 when I got it, because over the years heating up, cooling down, small cracks, and presumably ice, had caused the disc to go kerblooey one day when the PO was driving. Disk itself was perfect, the bit that held it to the car was less than complete.
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