EF7 hybrid ZC/D16a6 Turbo. Indexed

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Segedins solved the expired harness problem, it was just the left shoulder sash which was clipped wrong and said May '05, the other two tags said May 07 so they swapped a May 07 one on from another set and now we are sorted.

One expires april 09 and the other may 09 now.
That should keep future scrutineers happy.

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Shit! 8O
So thats why my brakes were starting to show a little fade by the final round. Yes that is bare metal on the 2nd pic. And Yes the disc is now fuxored.

"Ya o.k there brake disc? You seem to have done yourself a bit of mischief" says uncle chop chop.

Looks like an excuse for some new rotors, (even though these ones were practically new anyway )

[xsiv]

thoes brakes are over, get some 282mm preleude brakes setup, that stop u quick

[nzcivicracer]

Take those backing plates over to race brakes & get a quote for some Mintex M1166 compund. Thats what I'm running & have lasted the last 3 track days. Leave the back stock if the wear is minimal.
I think mine are due for replacement now though

[doo0T!doo0T!]

I'm too tight to fork out for custom pads
I nabbed some Heavy Duty Bendex pads from BNT this morning on a madness discount and am looking at a set of slotted Zonelli rotors tomorrow out in Manukau.

I'm going to stick with the 242mm rotors for now, with some decent pad material they should be ample with those forking massive twin pot calipers.

next track day i'll just take spare pads and swap them at lunchtime.
I am running Ferodo G2's on the back those ones I found in the spare wheel well of the EG5, score!

[turbozxi]

Most people in the know reccomend just brembo blanks.

[Horny_Devil]

mike if u find some rotars let me know i might need a set at some stage

[miketurb0honda]

Originally Posted by turbozxi

Most people in the know reccomend just brembo blanks.

yup! i run brembo blanks with bendix metal king pads
awesome stopping

[Haydz]

DBA rotors from 0800 Brakes did me well and were fairly cheap.

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Originally Posted by turbozxi

Most people in the know reccomend just brembo blanks.

Yeah of course but I'm not made of money and have spent a lot on this thing in the last few weeks and still have a few bills to pay yet.
I just want to get it up and running to a better standard than it was before, it doesn't have to stop the world rotating when i put the brakes on

Originally Posted by Horny_Devil

mike if u find some rotars let me know i might need a set at some stage

Yep found some, Znoelli, finished in New Zealand from imported castings from Europe, about the same quality as far as I can see as the likes of DBA except I have paid and extra $30 and gone for the 12 slot motorsport discs instead of the 6 slot sport/road discs.
They come with thermochromatic paint around the edge which indicates how hot your brakes have got during a session.
Here's the best bit though, I managed to get a trade price and scored them for $260 all up for the pair including gst. That's a pretty killer deal in my book, Trade price for DBA non-slotteds through BNT was $170 each.
They will be machined up and ready to pick up tomorrow afternoon. And they have a lifetime gaurantee against manufacturers defects just like the like of brembo etc.
Wait till I get them, you can take a look and see if they are what you are after. Hey they could be shit but I'm picking they'll be pretty good, it's not like they're chinese, and after having a long chat with the owner over the phone I was pretty impressed, he seemed to have his head screwed on right.
Znoelli are also an agent for Mintex pads and fluid too.

[SLOTEG]

yeah i had a yarn to the guy from zonellis too, answered all my questions and knew what was what. im prob gonna be getting some of his rotors for the next project.
did you get the slotted and dimpled ones or just the slotted?

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Originally Posted by SLOTEG

yeah i had a yarn to the guy from zonellis too, answered all my questions and knew what was what. im prob gonna be getting some of his rotors for the next project.
did you get the slotted and dimpled ones or just the slotted?

Just slotted, I think the dimpled ones are for the holden and ford market and are for the crossdrilled "look" because it's important to some people to look like they have crossdrilled rotors.
He said, (and i have heard the same thing a lot before), is that cross drilling rotors are like 10 times more likely to crack under excessive heat cycling as seen in motorsport and in a rotor as small as mine, 242mm, any weight reduction would be negligible anyway.
The slots are apparently more than enough to de-gass under the pad because as the rotor is small and the slots are so close together.

Plus I've seen the dimpled ones and they just look pants.

[SLOTEG]

lol ok ill have a gander at yours and go from there
picking up the new bitch tomorrow and the build starts saturday morning

[NAspirated]

you do know the legend/nsx twin pot calipers have less clamping pressure (braking force) than the BB prelude calipers right... they are only just above factory EF8/9/DA6/8 calipers in regards to clamping pressure (all other things being equal of course).

the prelude calipers will also bolt straight onto your EF knuckles.


Multi pot calipers have a great tendency for uneven pad wear. as for slotted rotors, youre wasting money bro. really not worth the effort. blanks are just as good (if not better).

HTH.

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Originally Posted by SLOTEG

lol ok ill have a gander at yours and go from there
picking up the new bitch tomorrow and the build starts saturday morning

tell me more.....

Originally Posted by NAspirated

you do know the legend/nsx twin pot calipers have less clamping pressure (braking force) than the BB prelude calipers right... they are only just above factory EF8/9/DA6/8 calipers in regards to clamping pressure (all other things being equal of course).

the prelude calipers will also bolt straight onto your EF knuckles.

Multi pot calipers have a great tendency for uneven pad wear. as for slotted rotors, youre wasting money bro. really not worth the effort. blanks are just as good (if not better).

HTH.

Where did you find that info?, I'd be genuinely interested to have a read.
I'm only going with the CA1's as that's what I already have, I paid a grand zero dollars for them
The clamping pressure, pound per square inch, might be only marginally greater than what i had but the pad size is conciderably larger. So surely greater psi plus more frictional area has got to equate to a gain. right?

I looked into EF8/9/DA6/8 calipers but was told that they needed to be run with the larger diameter EF8/9/DA6/8 rotor which inturn nessessetated the EF8/9/DA6/8 suspension upright. it opened a can of worms I couldn't be fucked with when i had a set of CA1's right infront of me ready to bolt on. They use the original EF7 rotor.

All I can say is the bum dyno told me that as soon as i put these puppies on i noticed a big difference in stopping power. They were enough to impress Neil Fraser and he builds Lotus & replicas capable of standing on their front wheels under braking.

As far as the pad wear goes, the set of pads I just rooted were evenly worn, not worn more from one side of the pad to the other. I know what your saying with multipots wearing unevenly but it doesn't seem to be the case here, infact the single pots on the back have worn the pads more unevenly.

I dont think i'm throwing money away, $260 for a pair of slotted rotors is not big coin. Fuck it we'll see how it goes soon enough.

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Originally Posted by miketurb0honda

i run brembo blanks with bendix metal king pads
awesome stopping

I just picked up the new pads thismorning, turns out Bendix make metal Kings and Bendix HD is a Metal King, I didn't know this, it's the same part number and everything.
They came in a Metal-King box and the dude hooked me up, $43.70 inc gst

[xsiv]

that a good price

[doo0T!doo0T!]

Here's me new Brakes....

[nemesisteg]

dam that looks like a fairly decent amount of stopin power for the old crx!! very nice 8)

[Ped Rac3r]

They look nice. They only cost you $260? Im planning on doing a brake upgrade, so if they work for you I might head down that route.

The blue gearbox looks pretty neat too.

[chuckles2]

zonellis are good, know a few cars down here that run them with good results and no probs.

[BTLF3D]

might wanna put a grommet on those 2 wires coming out of the body before they cut through :wink:

[4 TTL]

Metal kings are a reasonable pad, smoked a couple sets and discs held up good.
Next upgrade is the FD 4 pots, stops 10x better than the twins.

[nzcivicracer]

Originally Posted by 4 TTL

Next upgrade is the FD 4 pots, stops 10x better than the twins.

Tell me more :wink:

[xsiv]

that look sick