New Brake Stuff Installed
Posted: June 5th, 2005, 3:24 pm
Yay, spent a good 6 hours or so installing all of my new brake stuff.
Here's the run down of before:
-Remanu'd front calipers (bought last october)
-Axxis Deluxe organic front pads (installed last July)
-Brembo X-drilled, heavily worn front rotors
-Original 160k mileage rear calipers
-Axxis Deluxe Organic rear pads (Installed las July)
-New Generic POS Autozone rear rotors (new in jan 05')
-Techna-fit stainless steel brake lines (Installed last July)
-ATE Super Blue DOT4 Racing Fluid
Needless to say, the brakes were s---. The front rotors were VERY heavily worn. I now can safely say that I will never buy cross-drilleds again as they simply do not last for more than 3 years and 60k miles of use (thats about how long i used them..they were on my protege previously).
Each area where the holes were drilled had a horrible groove, preventing the pads from fully gripping the rotor. They were likely gripping less than 30% of the surface of the rotor, so you can guess how crappy the brakes worke.d
The rears were also fuxed. The axxis pads already fell apart after only 10k miles of use. One had a crack and the friction material clumped out of the pad (wtf). Plus the inside of both pads were wearing more than the outside which indicated that my rear calipers were probably in need of a rebuild. I was right! The sliders WON"T FRIGGIN MOVE without a hella lot of force, there must have been no grease inside of them.
On top of that, my entire brake system felt spongy no matter how effectively I bled the damn thing! Maybe I just suck at life or something.
OK now for the new stuff:
-2000 Millenia Master Cylinder w/brake booster (1" bore instead of 15/16")
-Same Remanufactured front calipers, but boots/bushings and sliders removed so I could paint them
-Brand New Hawk HPS semi-metallic Front Pads
-Brand New Brembo Blank Front rotors
-Rebuilt Rear calipers that I did myself (was easier than I thought)
-Brand New Axxis MetalMaster (actually PBR, same company) rear pads
-brand New brembo Blank rear rotors
-Same Techna-Fit SS lines
-Opened a new QT of ATE super Blue DOT4 Racing Fluid
-All Calipers & areas of rotors painted with Silver VHT 1500 degree caliper paint
PICTURES:
As you can see I painted the rotors inside & the outer rim of the rotors with paint. As you all know, these areas RUST THE FIRST TIME WATER TOUCHES THEM! I used my sanding block with some 200 grit sandpaper to sand the paint off the surface of the rotors while water was running over them. You can see the one rotor had rust build up b/c I didn't wipe the water off! THat pic was taken approx 30 minutes after I sanded the rotors so yeah.....that s--- rusts IMMEDIATELY upon water touching it, pretty scary.
I'm glad I painted those parts before I installed them b/c I doubt there would be any way to properly do it after they've been exposed to a single rainstorm.
Here's the run down of before:
-Remanu'd front calipers (bought last october)
-Axxis Deluxe organic front pads (installed last July)
-Brembo X-drilled, heavily worn front rotors
-Original 160k mileage rear calipers
-Axxis Deluxe Organic rear pads (Installed las July)
-New Generic POS Autozone rear rotors (new in jan 05')
-Techna-fit stainless steel brake lines (Installed last July)
-ATE Super Blue DOT4 Racing Fluid
Needless to say, the brakes were s---. The front rotors were VERY heavily worn. I now can safely say that I will never buy cross-drilleds again as they simply do not last for more than 3 years and 60k miles of use (thats about how long i used them..they were on my protege previously).
Each area where the holes were drilled had a horrible groove, preventing the pads from fully gripping the rotor. They were likely gripping less than 30% of the surface of the rotor, so you can guess how crappy the brakes worke.d
The rears were also fuxed. The axxis pads already fell apart after only 10k miles of use. One had a crack and the friction material clumped out of the pad (wtf). Plus the inside of both pads were wearing more than the outside which indicated that my rear calipers were probably in need of a rebuild. I was right! The sliders WON"T FRIGGIN MOVE without a hella lot of force, there must have been no grease inside of them.
On top of that, my entire brake system felt spongy no matter how effectively I bled the damn thing! Maybe I just suck at life or something.
OK now for the new stuff:
-2000 Millenia Master Cylinder w/brake booster (1" bore instead of 15/16")
-Same Remanufactured front calipers, but boots/bushings and sliders removed so I could paint them
-Brand New Hawk HPS semi-metallic Front Pads
-Brand New Brembo Blank Front rotors
-Rebuilt Rear calipers that I did myself (was easier than I thought)
-Brand New Axxis MetalMaster (actually PBR, same company) rear pads
-brand New brembo Blank rear rotors
-Same Techna-Fit SS lines
-Opened a new QT of ATE super Blue DOT4 Racing Fluid
-All Calipers & areas of rotors painted with Silver VHT 1500 degree caliper paint
PICTURES:
As you can see I painted the rotors inside & the outer rim of the rotors with paint. As you all know, these areas RUST THE FIRST TIME WATER TOUCHES THEM! I used my sanding block with some 200 grit sandpaper to sand the paint off the surface of the rotors while water was running over them. You can see the one rotor had rust build up b/c I didn't wipe the water off! THat pic was taken approx 30 minutes after I sanded the rotors so yeah.....that s--- rusts IMMEDIATELY upon water touching it, pretty scary.
I'm glad I painted those parts before I installed them b/c I doubt there would be any way to properly do it after they've been exposed to a single rainstorm.
