8 pot Brembo fitment?

[Fish]

Bugger off boasting that you\'ve got someone to make the bells and bracket will you. :p

Fish

[Initial-D]

Ha haa, sorry fella! I\'d have thought KAD or somewhere could do it, you\'d just need to leave the bits with them, it\'d take a while but they\'d do it eventually.

[jinx]

From experience a couple of years ago, many engineering companies will no longer make brackets or components for brakes. One (a former supplier to Lotus) explained it was because the risk of being sucked into a law suit in the event of a failure/accident was too great to make it worth doing - especially as a one off. [Lotus had wanted them to sign documents making the supplier liable in the event of a claim against them.] It was a pity as up to the point we told him what they were for, everything was going really well. He was happy to make us bits for racing boats but maybe because when they break large amounts of the evidence just sinks!

Not sure I would recommend the place where we finally got it done. Can dig out the address if you get stuck as they were S. London / Kent borders somewhere so I guess convenient for you if nothing else and you could check them out for yourself. It is best to get it done somewhere you can visit easily. (A company based in Wales, advertising a range of brake products for Subarus, took payment for our one off brackets and bells but never supplied and quickly became impossible to contact.)

[Fish]

Jinx, please PM me the details of said company. I\'m in S/E London.

Thanks
Fish

[banned advertiser]

Ben oif you talking about 4 pots on rears and then spots for hand barke, would you not be better off and possibly cheaper to use HiSpec rears with the hand brakes built in
http://www.rotaryart.uk.com/acatalog/Road_calipers.html

[jinx]

Fish - pm sent

[jetpilot]

I must admit, of topic about brakes, but am surprised at the amount of FD owners who like Porsches! I find them one of the dullest cars on the road, yes they may be fantastically engineered and perform day on day without fault and be devastingly quick but they are just, well, so German....
Characterless and bland. Very surprised that a guy with an eye for what is probably one of the sexiest cars to come out of Japan (rx7) would be interested in such a car! Each to their own, what makes the world different.

[Jonathan_F]

Off topic but I would rather have a \'90 911 turbo widebody than my RX7. Its just an icon. And I hate 911\'s. Its the challenge that attracts me.

[Initial-D]

Cheers Gary they look good, need to save a bit first as those plus pads, discs, bells and brackets soon add up!

Whats all this talk of Porsches! They are good cars but they\'ve had more refinements than RX-7s to get that far, I\'ll stick with the RX-7 as it\'s far less common.

[chrno]

Ben,
I know that Brembo makes a handbrake caliper for the rears, Revolution uses them together with their uprated rear Ap calipers.  http://revo-tune.jp/catalogue/detail.php?id=71
Maybe you already knew about them, but I have been looking for quite some time for a good setup for the rear.. and those would open up alot of closed doors.

/Daniel

[Initial-D]

Funny I\'ve looked all through their site and never noticed that! Thanks that is an ideal solution... although they aren\'t cheap!! I can\'t afford it at the moment, hopefully I\'ll get onto it soon - you been able to start on your revo V-mount yet?

[chrno]

Yes, its not like buying candy.. But hey.. if you buy quality.. you only cry once..  

Regarding my vmount.. I can\'t even begin to explain how much my fingers are itching.. But I won\'t start to fit it until I get home from Japan.. So one month of vacation/buying/filling my suitcase. And then it\'s home to my garage.. Will post pictures of the whole build once I am home.. Figured I wanted a Efini Ypipe as it would look better with all the other metal piping. Have to fit my new injectors and possibly get a flywheel/clutch from knightsports, and fit a FEED silenced midpipe together with the Vmount..  Maybe Ill skip the clutch setup as my wallet will be pretty empty when getting home.. but I do need to buy that silenced midpipe (and cross all the fingers I have that I won\'t experience boost creeping)

[Bramble]

Regarding the ABS;

It doesnt matter what brakes or tyres you have the ABS will still work. The ABS works with a geared ring and a magnetic sensor, so the type of tyre and type of brakes will make absolutely NO difference as to whether the ABS works or not. The ABS does not work by measuring deceleration but measures the relative difference between the wheels.

Just wanted to point out some incorrect information.