In The Club

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[XtRmn8]

Nice one

Do you have rubber grommets for the handbrake adjustment in you rear disks?

I can't find any 10mm grommets to suit the 328mm DBA disks and the OEM ones are too big.

[Bomber]

Don't know about the grommets mate sorry. Was professionally installed by better brakes on the gold coast. Noticed the handbrake has been adjusted however. I'll ask for you.

Feeling better as they bed in. Was green on green. With some heat into them I think they'll be excellent.

I weighed all components to compare. Interestingly, the 4 piston brembos were only 700g heaver in total. Both loaded with pads - including brake lines. However, the rears were 3.5kg in total. The 355mm fronts were a shade under 2kg each heaver than the 322mm RDA rotors I had on.

All in all, she's porked up 11.9kg. I was hoping it would be no more than 10kg but no biggie. If you went with DBA 5000's with alloy hats you'd trim off approximately 700g per rotor. At $400 extra a pair though - hard to justify.

Very happy to get this finally done. Just need moar powar now to make up for the weight increase

[XtRmn8]

Thanks for that. Smallest grommet for sell is 14mm. I should probably just call DBA re the grommets.

What pads are you running mate?

I've only done about 150km since fitting mine so they are not bedded in yet but feel heaps better with moderate brake pressure.

[Bomber]

Mathew from Race Brakes Sydney supplied 'Bremtec' ceramic technology thingies to try. The have soft backs etc so will be quiet and low dust he reckons. Wasn't too concerned about bite because the upgrade with much greater contact area and a vented rotor is where the gains will come for my application. If tracking the car you'd go more aggressive. Fronts pads are Brembo.

Edited 09/01/14 10:36 PM by Bomber

[Bomber]

Things going well

[BenDoCo]

so who works for the energy drink company then??

thinking "potential sponsor of the ute/trailer" there

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Had the car serviced today and the right front was starting to delaminate - grrrr! A closer look found both the 595 Evo's had issues so binned them. Basically, they were out of shape on both the inner and outers. I'm pretty fussy with keeping correct pressures up so don't know what happened really. Got about 20k out of them.

Anyway, I've put ATR Sports on them for now. Not a great looking tyre I must say, but plenty seem to run them and are happy. Much quieter than the Federal's. At $254 for both fitted - bargain.

The plan is, I'm going to buy another matching front rim and re shoe the fronts with nitto invos. One of the older rims with become a spare with the ATR on it (to clear the new brembos) to replace the space saver plus, double up for the trailer. I'll either wear out the near new 275 rears or, strip them early and replace with the nittos also.

I'm intending to go up a series also to soften the ride a bit. Can get 245 40 19's (up from 35) and 275 35 19's (up from 30) in the nittos. Will be a grippier combo but with a bit more bag. Win win!

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Well, old mate Mr Diff bush decided to reappear. Out they came today and superpro comforts in.

No increase in noise other than a slight 'clunk' on engagement. I can live with that. All three were split. I reckon the inners were gone for ages. Car feels so much better now. No more floppy rear end.

Total cost was $225 for bushes and $480 for Ford to fit.

If the rear of your car feels poo don't dick around - get them changed. So happy I've ticked yet another box. Brembos and PBR upgrade + diff bushes this year so far. Next will probably be valve springs before I chase more power. I'm all about refining the car this year plus more ponies

[Bomber]

^^^ Plus had my arm around April Vaughan as per pic above. Google her