My New Brakes Updated (from old forum)

Post by **Coops** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:38 pm

A few of you have been asking from the old forum what the news was on my new brakes that i posted about a while ago,
SO here is the latest pics from Caprisport.,
the Hubs have been modified now and the locating rings made,
the caliper brackets have also been made now,
when i was over caprisport the other day i had a quick preview of the new set-up, they do look mighty big now they are on a strut

hope to have these on the car very very soon,
all i can say is, they use a 315mm vented disk, and brembo 4 pot calipers.

if she don't stop with these on she never will

Mikecapri2.8i · Post by **Mikecapri2.8i** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:26 am

Looks great, and I assume no problems fitting under the wheels? Any changes to the master or front to rear balance needed? You ought to be able to stop on a spot with those!

Post by **Coops** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:38 am

the set up just and i mean just sits inside my 16" rims

we are not sure if the master cylinder needs changing yet,
but time will tell once the set up is fitted to the car, then if need be we can change the M/C
also balance wise not sure yet mate

Post by **Coops** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:09 pm

sorry progress has been slow,
but with me being busy, and with the car problems i have had this year

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and with the guys at Caprisport being swamped in work, we have not progressed to far on my new conversion,
BUT things are coming together slowly, the calipers have been cleaned and checked over and are sound, and will soon be with me ready for painting,
i have the vented rear calipers here ready for painting too.

Post by **Coops** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:57 pm

I finally made some time to work on the callipers,
The calipers have now been painted

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So fittment day is now getting closer.

Post by **demo2** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:36 pm

They look awesome T,

Post by **Coops** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 5:16 pm

cheers P,
but i only cleaned and painted them,
the rest of the work is being done by Jon and Neil at Caprisport.

Post by **Coops** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:35 pm

The capri is off to the guys at Caprisport in the morning to have the new brake package done, this is just in time for me to show it off at the capri day at the ace on saturday.

after the brakes is a strut brace to try and sort out, i doubt this will be done for the capri day,

Post by **Coops** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:38 pm

A big thankyou goes out to Neil and co at caprisport,
we worked late into this evening doing the front brakes,
the rears will be done ready for the weekend.

Old brakes before removal:

New brakes waiting to be fitted:

New 315mm cross drilled and vented disc fitted, along with center hub locating ring:

Wheel and new alloy 4 pot Brembo calliper fitted:

and another side view: (they are 16" wheels)

All i can say is:
the 4 pots we took off were great and stopped the car great,
BUT these are fooking animals and stop you on a sixpence,

kevv6x · Post by **kevv6x** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:05 am

All looking great.

Well done to the guys at CapriSport.

Post by **Coops** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:15 pm

New rear caliper brackets, along with even longer wheel studs:

New vented cross drilled disc fitted:

New vented caliper now fitted too:

End view of vented disc:

Pic with wheel refitted:

Post by **demo2** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:31 pm

Now that does look sexy, bet ur stoked, do u need a new master cyl? were those the rear brake caliper brkts i made out of stainless?

csr · Post by **csr** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:55 pm

Brackets are genuine Caprisport.

Master cylinder is stock 22mm but may be upped a little to 24 or 25mm