So I got the new brakes on this past weekend and ended up going all out and painting the rotors and calipers with G2 paint and some decals. I did the job by myself minus the bleeding and I have to say it took some time! Quite a bit of time. I am SO glad I didnt try attacking the ES poly bushings job at the same time or else I woulda pulled my hair out. Just grinding the old factory caliper paint, and rust off the calipers and rotors... took a lot of time, not to mention painting 3 coats, applying decals, and then putting on 3 coats of clear coat. Prob too much in retrospect but ohh well I wanted to use all the paint. The first time I bled the brakes I took the car out and the car stopped but was spongy. Even with a spongy pedal feel we did an emergency stop from 85 to 20 and the car stopped hard enough to make my father and myself a little light headed afterwards. I brought the car back in bled it again and took it out. Deff better pedal feel especially at high speed. These brakes no longer lose their nuts slowing down from serious triple digit speed. Which is nice. It doesnt give you the crazy clamping force that bites the rotors like a rabbid pitbull like you would get with a 4 piston caliper setup, its a softer bite than that but it doesnt fade at all, even coming from very high speed. Also a couple other things that were some kinda other odd little things. After getting the rotors and pads nice and warm from braking from high speed. I pulled into my neighborhood and went to slow down from about 25 mph to take a corner and I nearly locked the wheels up, after getting warmed up these pads start to get really sticky and at slow speeds if you just get on the pedal a little bit will slow you down NOW!!. Other than the added braking performance there were some odd but good side effects I've noticed after the brake install.

One of those side effect is that the handling feel has improved... I know I must be crazy right... but it has. You can feel the added unsprung mass in the front of the car. And it seems to have helped turn in. When I turn the wheel the front end really darts in that direction now (turn in is better). The only reason I can think of why this would be happening is because the added mass of the heavier 6th gen rotors might pull the front end, the way you turned the wheels, faster because of the added centripital force. For example if you were to get a bicycle wheel and put a pipe through the middle and hold the pipe on either side of the wheel, and spin the wheel fast, and then try to turn the wheel you notice the direction you turned the wheel it pulls you in that direction. I think, and I could be crazy, this is happening to a greater degree now because the added reciprocating weight up front has added to the centripital forces that the car is experiencing as you turn the wheel.

Another odd but cool side effect of the brakes is before this I had brought my car in 3 times to get the tires balanced. No matter what they did they could not get rid of this vibration at around 70-75mph. Afer the first balance it was really bad, which they attributed to high road force on one of the tires and they rebalanced it and the vibration was still there but not as bad. The third time they said they couldent do anything for me and basically to deal with it. Now for WHATEVER reason after the brakes the vibration is gone and its absolutly smooth.

Here are some pics I took. The new rotors really fill the wheel wells.













Glad I got these done as I am going to be driving an hour and a half to NH to drop my car off with the fabricator to start work on the SFCs. Wish me luck with that. I have been working on trying to get it done for months now. They will be an good mod because now that my car handles better as I start to go into corners hard I hear my dash creaking as the chassis flexes. Hopefully the SFCs will fix that.

 

MAN! I never thought I'de like having great brakes so much. These things make the car stop the way it should have from the factory.

 

not bad at all.

 

cool, cant wait till i put 6g brakes on sometime this summer.

by the way where did you buy all the parts needed? pads, rotors, and calipers

 

Went to www.car-parts.com. You can find any part you want on there and it will tell you the closest salvage yards that have the part. I paid 25$ per rotors and 50$ per caliper and 30$ for shipping, and they even came with shims, the used pads, and a 90 day warranty.

The pads I bought off a company I saw on ebay. I got them for like 70$ for the front and I think like 45$ for the rear pads.

The SS lines and Brake fluid I got from the GD

 

Overall what is time/price of this overhaul. I am really considering the upgrading from my A33 brakes which we wont mention the stopping powers of that.

 

Well like I said the front rotors were 50$
the front calipers were 100$
shipping for the rotors/calipers was 30$
ATE dot 4 blue fluid 15$
SS braided lines 85$
around 15$ for shipping of fluid and lines
Hawk pads around 120$ shipped
G2 paint 35$ shipped
Caliper decals I think they were like 15$ shipped

So around 450$ for everything and I did some extra stuff.

 

I paid $280 for my A34 Fr brakes....

 

hey sciff...where did u get the caliper decal from?

 

http://www.xenonmods.com/

 

What clear coat did you put over the G2?

 

Duplicolor high temp clear coat

 

Thanks, thats the sameone I used. When I used G2 about 3 years ago to paint my calipers, the paint faded after 6 months and got worst overtime. I will get the 6th gen calipers installed this weekend and painted those calipers red, I decided to put 3 coats of the duplicolor high temp over the g2. Hopefully this will allow the color to last longer.