Upgraded brakes

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:28 am

I took the plunge, I contacted Powerbrake and baught the Die Hard series upgrade kit for the S13, R2995.

Fitted it last night, now it is just the bedding prosess then I will be able to see what it did for my braking ability.

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:41 am

Good boy... hope you got some decent pads too?

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:53 am

Ya it came with the kit, semi track/road pads

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:39 am

Wicket, let the guys know I'm sure you will be impressed

ChemCool · Post by **ChemCool** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:36 pm

Wicket, let the guys know I'm sure you will be impressed

Derek, we lately become astute investors.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:54 pm

You can say that again Freddy, we are investing our pensions away. When I am 70 I will be eating, drinking,washing,lounging.......in my sx, at least I wil be pensioning in a cool ride

ChemCool · Post by **ChemCool** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:00 pm

You can say that again Freddy, we are investing our pensions away. When I am 70 I will be eating, drinking,washing,lounging.......in my sx, at least I wil be pensioning in a cool ride

qewrty · Post by **qewrty** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:15 am

Draco wrote:You can say that again Freddy, we are investing our pensions away. When I am 70 I will be eating, drinking,washing,lounging.......in my sx, at least I wil be pensioning in a cool ride

well you know what they say, rather burn out than grow old!

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:13 pm

Draco wrote:You can say that again Freddy, we are investing our pensions away. When I am 70 I will be eating, drinking,washing,lounging.......in my sx, at least I wil be pensioning in a cool ride

and a really cool ride like an SX, gets a discount with Vlade, our current forum pimp!!!! hope he's still around when you retire Draco!!!!!

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:42 pm

Ok so how about you tell us how the brakes work

Great-Good-Okay-Stay away

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:49 pm

veecee wrote: and a really cool ride like an SX, gets a discount with Vlade, our current forum pimp!!!! hope he's still around when you retire Draco!!!!!

Yeah I hope to have a motor in my car before I retire

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:25 pm

OK.....the brakes works very good, I am not disapointed at all.....look ma I can brake!

jon · Post by **jon** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 4:56 pm

That's great Draco, how do they compare to standard?

Longer warm up period?

I wonder if Powerbrake will ever bring out a kit for the rear brakes, probably wishful thinking

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:08 am

For one thing they definately don't fade as the normal ones do, there is a color coding on the discs that tells you how hot the discs ran, I have braked just as hard as before and the color coding tells me that it has not even reached the lowest heat range on the disc. As for the warm up period they advised me that I just need to get the discs to operating temp before braking hard, the same with cooling down, if i braked hard I must just drive a little using the brakes normally if needs be to cool down a bit.....this makes sence.....if you heat up metal fast and cool it down fast....shit happens.

All and all I will definately recommend this product, as for the rear I am sure if there is a big need from alot of s13 owners for the back brake kit they will make a plan.

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:46 am

Yeah you will only see it getting to the middle / top heat rating on track "like" use, under normal hard braking they'll cool down too fast for you to notice, or heavy highway driving

GREAT I LIKE IT... Guys are proving a point that I was trying to make a while back... Braking capability depends on bads / rotors... Those will make the most noticeable difference.