new brakes question

[Christophe]

I've never thought about upgrading my brakes as naturally you think f**k that i'll make my car quicker. But was driving the other day round some country roads and realised how shite my brakes are and how much better my clio would handle and feel if i had bigger brakes that actually slowed me down properly lol.

So wondered if anyone had info on upgraded brakes so like what to get and prices.

 

[Fred@BTM]

DS2500's brembo HC's braided lines DOT 5.1

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[Christophe]

DS2500's brembo HC's braided lines DOT 5.1

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lol what? Any links so i can see what price they are?

 

[Christophe]

what does that come with pads? disks? calipers? I know nothing on brakes or understand much bout them apart from the obvious

 

[Russ.]

DS2500's brembo HC's braided lines DOT 5.1

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Brake Pads - DS2500's
Brake Discs - Brembo High Carbon's
Brake Lines - Goodridge Braided Brake Lines
Brake Fluid - DOT 5.1

No new callipers required with that lot, and by all accounts it will stop you on a 10p piece

You dont need anything better than the stock setup on the rear brakes.

 

[Christophe]

so all that is just for fronts?

How much would that cost me? And how often would disks and pads need replacing?

 

[Russ.]

Think the parts are around the following price wise -

Brake Pads - DS2500's £90
Brake Discs - Brembo High Carbon's £60
Brake Lines - Goodridge Braided Brake Lines £45
Brake Fluid - DOT 5.1 £10-20

You can ofcourse save money by shopping around and using ebay. I bought some braided lines a few weeks back for £17 posted. I also got Brembo max discs which are normally £120 ish for £70 posted.

Discs and pads...depends if you do any track days or not. If you do track days prob 12months i guess. If you just use the car on the road then should last you a couple of years really.

Russ

 

[Christophe]

Thats cool. Won't be using my car on tracks.

So is it best to get all those things from different places or can you get the whole lot as a package type thing?

 

[Russ.]

Yozzasport used to sell them as a package im pretty sure. Although it doesn't appear they have much at all in stock now on their website.

You might find it cheaper to source them all independently if you can be arsed.

Eg get the discs from GSF, braided lines wait for an ebay bargain.

 

[Christophe]

nice one. Cheers for your help. Might get bit by bit over next couple months. I just thought that my car would drive so much better with better brakes as mine at the mo are quite shite and seem to be fading

 

[Russ.]

Yeah, i did the same mate. When you buy piece by piece you dont miss the money so much as its not so much of a financial hit.

In the mean time you might want to go to a garage and have a brake bleed/fluid change. Wont cost you much at all and will more than likely make a big improvement

 

[Christophe]

ye thats what i thought.

Is that why i've got fade? Might get that changed then.

 

[Russ.]

Could be. I dont know though. Depends how hard youve been pushing your brakes. Your definition of pushing them could be different to mine etc Hard to say without driving the car

 

[ben_r1]

EBC all the way

 

[Russ.]

EBC all the way

You think? Which EBC you have in mind?

Ive heard Green stuff fade really easily rendering them leathal and Red stuff take a hell of alot of heat to get going. Never really heard much on Yellow at all. Cant say ive heard anyone say they own them

 

[Fred@BTM]

EBC discs are beyond terrible, barge pole

they're pads are ok, but not my first choice

 

[rSi]

Like the others Im now getting brake fade on my 05' 182 and I have a sevice due so ... Im joining the ranks of the upgraded brakes!

Only problem is that I am an old git now and dont go that far, mainly school runs and out for a short blast when I have a spare 5 mins so I was wondering if DS2500 are really the best thing for me. Anyone else tried the others - Ferodo Ds Performance Brake Pads ???

Appart from that I think Im going for the obvious :-

Brembo Max Grooved Front Brake Discs
Goodridge Braided Brake Lines
DOT 5.1 Brake Fluid


TA

Si.

 

[Fred@BTM]

don't bother with the max discs

 

[SCOTT_182CUP]

do the DS2500 Squeal? Had Carbon Lorraines in and they are quite bad for it.

 

[rSi]

hmm someone else has said not to bother with the MAX discs, I was only thinking of them as they look cool. so maybe ill just stick with the standard brenbo 280mm.

Anyone have much squeal from the DS2500 or DS performance?

 

[Fred@BTM]

if you fit them correctly you should be fine, you might have the odd one, but i've only had one or 2 cars do it

 

[MarcC]

I went for the same

-Braided Lines
-Brembo HCs
-DS2500
-5.1 fluid/ urm maybe Dot4?

When i did it i used DOT 4, car says Dot 4 only and my friend whose a mechnic at Vauxhall for 15years told me 5.1 is not safe in a road car, something about it's inability to absorb even a tiny bit of water, i'm no professional and value his opinion so went with him and Renault and used DOT4.

As a result i beat my friend in his trophy down a really twisty lane, because after the 2nd corner he had no brakes lol

Never managed to fade the DS2500, always faded the std ones.

Before you fit the DS2500 buy some CG wheel guard sealant to stop the brake dust getting stuck on your wheels. Otherwise they're v.hard to clean.

Best thing i ever did. Although they do squeel way more then standard, it's not unbearable or everytime. curiously i find they squeel under 20mph more then any other time. Would still buy them again.

I've engaged ABS at 80MPH with these, thank god i had them