<p>Sports brakes. No pads :/</p>

 

Sport brakes are an upgrade for your 1.6 fodder, so buy sport brake pads?

Also, I may be stupid but I seem to remember someone saying you can put 1.8 calipers on sport brackets so you can run sport rotors and regular 1.8 pads. It would be pretty easy to confirm if you had all the parts sitting there.

 

<p>But right now I have some used cobalts I can run on the 1.8 brakes (I think) so no new pads needed.</p><p>After this year I will be doing a big brake upgrade. The whole point of this is not to waste money on something I'm replacing in 4 months.</p><p>And thats backwards. You can use 1.8 calipers on sport brackets with sports rotors but you still need sport pads. Its the bracket that the pad fits in, not the caliper.</p>

 

Ahh, I gets it!

 

<p>Plus I think there are issues with sports pads, and not having hardware or whatever. All I really want is 1.8 brake brackets on the front lol.</p>

 

I *think* loaned my NB 1.8 calipers/brackets to Gesso for the Exocet? Though he should have had an extra set from his NB project so maybe it was just lines and pads? I'll try to remember to check tonight.

If I do still have them I'd probably just loan them to you because while I eventually want them back, they are just taking up space in my garage at this point.

 

<p>Yesyesyes. A loan is all I need. I will be forever grateful. The real question is can you get them to me before Friday </p>

 

I know they are NOT installed on my car so they've got to be somewhere. USPS ships disturbingly fast to Oregon, or I can just 2 day FedEx/UPS them. I'd probably need to run home at lunch and see if I still have them, then pack them up and ship them today.

There are a lot of IFs in the above couple posts, but I'll try to let you know ASAP.

 

<p>I'm going to PM you my phone number/email so we can figure this all out.&nbsp;</p>

 

<p>Ok tell me how much this brake plan wins sucks.</p><p>Track day friday. Run the 1.6 brakes.</p><p>Get 1.8 fronts from G, buy some DTC-60 fronts to match the cobalt rears. Maybe buy the set of DTC-30's in the classifieds for $75.</p><p>Run vatozone pads when not tracking.</p><p>Big brake kit in the winter.</p>

 

Even with the BBK you're still going to want the ducts.

--Ian

 

still up for a custom bbk aidan? im not sure when im going to be able to afford willwoods, so this is looking like more of an option for me now.

 

I kno dat

 

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<br />Yes. But I may want to try and mill my own stuff. Let's talk.

 

The bigger and more pain in our *** weak spot is the caliper in my opinion. Let's pick a wilwood, pick a cheap rotor and I can design a braket around them. We may even be able to find plans if we use a corrado? rotor. I think we can find a better rotor though.

 

Oh come on, you can get the 1.8s on there by Friday

 

Why not the 11.75 rotor everyone uses.
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<br />I could but I don't have 1.8 pads. And I need to burn up these cobalts.

 

yes

 

Wilwood 11.75 rotors for Miata BBK

but hats add a lot to the price and were almost to the price of a bbk at that point

 

You can get a standard will wood hat I'm pretty sure. Its the special hat that makes em expensive. Or so I thought.