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Best upgrade to the Stock Brakes for the Street ?

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Old Nov 18, 2006 | 08:07 PM
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Best upgrade to the Stock Brakes for the Street ?

My brakes are not braking soon enough for me, and i'm thinking of moving to Stage 2 soon (520ish). Whats a good street setup ? I want to beable to brake sooner but still have the same drivability and feel as stock. Nothing extreme, just slightly better.
 
Old Nov 18, 2006 | 08:08 PM
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Decent Pads, Fluid would be enough for street!
 
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Braking is determined quite a bit not only by your brakes mechanism itself but by pads and TIRES. It all works as a system. If you're calipers/rotors/pads overpower your tires, all you get is a lot of ABS braking.
 
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Stainless steel braided lines maybe.
 
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Pads and fluid are a MUST, stainless lines are also nice but i dont think necessary if you arent tracking!
 
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What pads and fluid do you recommend for the street ? Also besides stopping sooner, is anything else effected either negatively or positivley by a change in these products ie. pedal feel etc. ?

I just want to stop sooner and have less fade. I don't want to alter the pedal feel or drivabilty/harshness/smoothness to be impacted in any way. Thanks
 
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What pads and fluid do you recommend for the street ? Also besides stopping sooner, is anything else effected either negatively or positivley by a change in these products ie. pedal feel etc. ?

I just want to stop sooner and have less fade. I don't want to alter the pedal feel or drivabilty/harshness/smoothness to be impacted in any way. Thanks
Can i ask how you are having braking issues/fade on the street?!?

BTW i recommend Motul Superblue brake fluid and Pagid Blue pads!
 
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I was wondering that too. Ive never had mine fade but I guess you could on some mtn roads.
 
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I was wondering that too. Ive never had mine fade but I guess you could on some mtn roads.
Even when i do some hard all out twisty driving through backroads i never got fade before i upgraded some brake components, its also cold out now here in the NE, i dont get it
 
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left-foot braking?
Or the streets he is driving in his country look like Monaco during Grand Prix day
 
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Add some GT3 air scoops up front.
 
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left-foot braking?
Or the streets he is driving in his country look like Monaco during Grand Prix day
He's in Boston, def. not the case
 
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Originally Posted by iLLM3
Can i ask how you are having braking issues/fade on the street?!?

BTW i recommend Motul Superblue brake fluid and Pagid Blue pads!



Well, when I bought my car the brakes were already broken in with 8,000K on them. Now two months later they've gradually gotten weaker and weaker, as in it takes more pressure on the pedal to get the same results that it used to take with just a soft touch. The only thing I can figure out is that maybe I've been driving too aggressivley or the couple times I braked really hard must have taken a toll on the brakes. Sometimes when I break really hard and the road is uneven I hear a grinding/grating sound.
 

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I felt the same... From 130mph the brakes are weak..LOL
My Cayenne Turbo brakes better than this thing.. have to get the brakes checked, mine has 33K miles...

I'll check pagid blue, thanks Martin
 


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