NHT brake calipers - OEM replacement

[racerb]

I have Road Raced lots of different FWD racecars over the years all using stock brake calipers. Your best money spent is on good pads (Hawk/Carbotech), rotors (Brembo,R1 Con.,Centric), brake lines (Goodridge,Stoptech), oh and as others have said proper cooling. Good quality fluid is a must, we always ran Castrol Dot 4/5, but any good fresh fluid bled often will make a big difference. A good set of Speed Bleeders will make life easier when optimizing long time brake performance.

http://www.russellperformance.com/mc/speed/import.shtml

racerb

[Yarflana]

Originally Posted by racerb

I have Road Raced lots of different FWD racecars over the years all using stock brake calipers. Your best money spent is on good pads (Hawk/Carbotech), rotors (Brembo,R1 Con.,Centric), brake lines (Goodridge,Stoptech), oh and as others have said proper cooling. Good quality fluid is a must, we always ran Castrol Dot 4/5, but any good fresh fluid bled often will make a big difference. A good set of Speed Bleeders will make life easier when optimizing long time brake performance.

http://www.russellperformance.com/mc/speed/import.shtml

racerb

Yeah, that's what I decided. On order right now from MI are R1 drums, rotors (drilled and slotted), shoes, Hawk pads, and a racing battery. I already replaced the break fluid with Motul 5.1 and put on stainless lines and adjusted the e-brake.

As of now, with just the new fluid, lines and e-brake adjustment, my pedal is twice as firm and 50% less travel in the brake pedal. With the new pads and shoes, it will be unbelievable I am sure and I won't have to mess with brake fluid bleeding again for a while.

Thanks for all the responses on this. I don't think I would have paid $500 for 4 piston calipers anyway, even if they were "double" the performance.