Brakes Done!

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RT/10Dave

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6,364 posts

215 months

Thursday 22nd May 2008
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It's taken a couple of weeks to get the pics up, as been so busy... But here's a few pics of the changes.

Work included, use of workshop, (Big thanks to Leggey!), use of worker & a couple of additional parts, (BIG Thanks to Baz! & to Sam & Shelby for letting me borrow him), new lines (Thanks to AndyBe for sending those over), New Discs (Thanks to Joel for getting those sorted for me). New Pads and fluid. Also performed a full service and fitted HID's on the day.

Couple of Pics:

Out with the old:




In with the new:







VERY Happy with the results! driving

Edited by RT/10Dave on Thursday 22 May 16:08

AndyBe

6,687 posts

214 months

Thursday 22nd May 2008
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Cool ! Have you test driven it ?

Mine's getting a good testing tomorrow. 350km's down to the ferry terminal, then over to Gotland. Then an even harder test on Saturday - all day on the Gotland Ringwinkdriving
And home again on Sunday.

I'll post up some pics next week. Gonna be 38 or 39 Vipers there.

V1PER

6,630 posts

267 months

Friday 23rd May 2008
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Looking good Dave...


RT/10Dave

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215 months

Friday 23rd May 2008
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V1PER said:
Looking good Dave...
Thanks again mate! I'm really chuffed! Everything looks and feels great! Do need to do something about the look of those rear calipers though... scratchchin I've been looking into rear caliper covers, TomFL was talking about doing some (not heard back from him in a while though), and they are also available through Zero Altitude Flight, but I'm considering just painting them to clean them up a bit.

Andy,
They had a good run last sunday and I'm really pleased with them, I haven't experienced any 'noise' that a few people had reported, but from reading through the Q&A section of the EBC website, this may be due to the recent change to three slots instead of five, which has been done primarily for noise reduction, the only noise I have experienced is a small squeal every now and then when slowing at low speeds, but I'm guessing that's all part of the bedding in process. Again according to the EBC website this can happen, but can also be reduced by adding shims behind the pads, so this might be something I need to look into if it continues or gets worse.

Viper

10,005 posts

280 months

Friday 23rd May 2008
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yea the OE rears are just plain embrassing, dont know how they got away fitting them

RT/10Dave

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215 months

Friday 23rd May 2008
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Think I'm going to try painting the calipers first and see how that looks, if no good then I'll get some covers from Zero Altitude Flight...





Zero Altitude Flight

DennisACR

108 posts

198 months

Sunday 25th May 2008
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this looks like a good job Dave. I hope you will not have the feeling to lose the rear axle brake function. But I don't think so. A friend of me has installed an 8-piston brake caliper at the front with 420mm discs and kept the rear brakes stock. This was not so nice to drive.

RT/10Dave

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215 months

Tuesday 27th May 2008
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Hi Dennis,

There won't be any additional brake bias to the front (anymore than there already is anyway). Apart from the discs and braided lines the set up is stock. The pads are Mopar, and the calipers are the same as stock, (just newer).

I'm already really pleased with the results, just need to give them a little time to bed in and settle.

AndyBe

6,687 posts

214 months

Tuesday 27th May 2008
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Mine got a good test on the track on Saturday. Also very pleased with the feel. Just what I needed when those corners are coming up a little quicker than my comfort levels allowedwink


RT/10Dave

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Tuesday 27th May 2008
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Good to hear everything is looking good Andy... bounce