Bad Brakes

[mattneck(Beavis)]

I've heard green stuff aren't what they are all cracked up to be? Mintex or Pagid isn't it? 

[DogDay]

yeah pagid are good - but I likes greenies & they're waaay better than the halfraud's crap I have at the moment on this car

DD

[mattneck(Beavis)]

I've got unipart, lol, can feel the fade a fair bit tbh! might be since doing my hubs and that, maybe they picked up some grime and that, emery cloth is gonna be the key for now 

[clipperjay]

I've heard green stuff aren't what they are all cracked up to be? Mintex or Pagid isn't it? 

EBC peas are good on the right set up. I would use them with groved power disc ATE the glaze never happens due to the groves exiting the gasses and leaving just the friction on pad to disc. Just don't go and buy red stuff they take ages to bite from cold if used on road. Bang for buck mintex are good performers!
 

[mattneck(Beavis)]

I'm only a 1.3, but maybe an upgrade is wrth looking into.. do grooves chew your pads at all, as of course its not flat to flat?

[DogDay]

I don't see the need for drilled or grooved disks for road use, or maybe I'm too old & slow  ... and drive a diesel

the hill that leads into my town is big... I pop it into neutral on the moor & ride it down for two and a half twisty miles to sea level... large sections of it are an 12% gradient - top laugh on an empty road - coming down off the moor on the way to work is dual carriageway - pop it into neutral at 60 mph at the top and come out the last corner and feed onto the motorway doing over 90mph still in neutral - man I LOVE gravity

I just have 238mm vented on the front & drums on the back with cheap pads - although the disks and the master cylinder etc are only a few months old at most.

even at the bottom when you can feel the heat radiating off the disks from like a foot away (& dumbass here actually licked his finger & touched the disk ouch!)  - no particular fade, still nice and responsive  - the only thing I'm going to do is fit greenies & braided hoses. - it really does not need any more for road use IMHO.

DD

mind you big brakes do look sexy, but i'm too tight to get anything that isn't functional & preferably cheap or secondhand  :embarassed:

[mattneck(Beavis)]

quality, my disks and pads, one of the rear cylinders, master cylinder and the fluid obviously, were all done fresh around august september time, theyre standard 1.3 jobbies though, solid 10mm disks, standard apds, drums at the back, we jsut cleaned up fully, shoes were alright at the time so..

maye a new set of pads are the key for now, the disks can wait and go vented when its really needed 

[DogDay]

what diameter are your disks?

DD

[mattneck(Beavis)]

239mm mate

went and got some pagids today, softer compound, so im not forcing a mianly metal compound against wafer thin disks that are gonna heat up and fade as they are.. 

[DogDay]

I may be talking out of my ar$e (again), but as far as I am aware you should be able to just swap over disks from a mk2 8v gti - like I did. 20mm vented - £30 odd for the pair. only difference is the pads are thinner - I think is like 15mm instead of 19mm.

but check with the cleverer guys here 1st

Should be fun with your new pagids 

DD