front to rear brake upgrade

[Connor_1994]

alright, so my front cut should be here during the week,

i was thinking about take the front brakes off the front cut, and putting them on my rear,
any ideas or suggestions with this?

[kiz]

Well my personal preferance is to buy new brake discs and pads instead of playing around with used brakes from another car.

I'm not sure what increase in braking you'll have with the slight increase in size. And whether it's worth your trouble. I could be wrong

[Connor_1994]

yeah thats what i was thinking,
all brakes will be getting upgraded soon, when i have more money haha

[kiz]

yeah thats what i was thinking,
all brakes will be getting upgraded soon, when i have more money haha

A complete upgrade to drilled and slotted are on the books for me soon. A few hundred dollars would do it for the four new discs plus then pads and bits a pieces. Still time consuming and expensive though

[Connor_1994]

thats it,
my new things to come soon are, brakes, suspension and new wheels and tyres haha,
need to get a bodykit though, as mine kinda got destroyed haha

[kiz]

thats it,
my new things to come soon are, brakes, suspension and new wheels and tyres haha,
need to get a bodykit though, as mine kinda got destroyed haha

My list is brakes, then dstock front and rear bumpers from there working it out as I got, suspension isn't on the cards yet but maybe down the track.

Hate being limited by my license...

[Shhtuart]

Useless upgrade.

Slotted rotors and decent pads is all you need for an NA FTO.

You'd need a bigger brake booster i'd assume for the increase in fluid through the system?

[Connor_1994]

license limits do suck, but eh, work your way around them haha,
its money restrictions that i hate haha

[Technikhaus]

Brakes are also first up for me.
Then dstocks rear and front bars :p

[kiz]

Brakes are also first up for me.
Then dstocks rear and front bars :p

High Five to that mate

[spetz]

You can't fit front brakes onto the rear...

[fraz91]

There's no point in getting drilled rotors. They offer no real advantage over standard rotors, and are crap compared to Slotted as they have a much higher tendency to crack.

You'd need a bigger brake booster i'd assume for the increase in fluid through the system?

Shhtuart's right. As soon as you start up-sizing the calipers at any point in the system, you'll need a bigger booster to handle it. Unlike changing the length in the brake lines, upgrading the size means that more fluid needs to be used to achieve the same amount of movement in the caliper. If you don't upgrade the booster, you'll find that when you hit the anchors your foot could go to the floor without providing any extra braking power. Not something you want to happen if you're in heavy traffic.

Put it in the "Too Hard Basket" for now and just go with the slotted rotors and some good pads. If you really want to up-size the calipers, do all 4 at the same time, or just the fronts.

[Bennoz]

There's no point in getting drilled rotors. They offer no real advantage over standard rotors, and are crap compared to Slotted as they have a much higher tendency to crack.

You'd need a bigger brake booster i'd assume for the increase in fluid through the system?

Shhtuart's right. As soon as you start up-sizing the calipers at any point in the system, you'll need a bigger booster to handle it. Unlike changing the length in the brake lines, upgrading the size means that more fluid needs to be used to achieve the same amount of movement in the caliper. If you don't upgrade the booster, you'll find that when you hit the anchors your foot could go to the floor without providing any extra braking power. Not something you want to happen if you're in heavy traffic.

Put it in the "Too Hard Basket" for now and just go with the slotted rotors and some good pads. If you really want to up-size the calipers, do all 4 at the same time, or just the fronts.

Guys its not the booster you upgrade, its the master cylinder.

[Connor_1994]

hmmmm, really need to study my breaking mechanics,
well, once my engine is sorted, ill start studying hahah, and slowly get to everything,
back at work now so have low, but steady income (:

picking up my front cut this saturday, all going well should be driving the fto again soon (:

once again,. thanks everyone for your help and assistance, in this thread aswell as my other one,

[spetz]

You can't fit front brakes onto the rear...

Kind of feel that this go disregarded...
So, Connor, you cannot use front FTO brakes on the rear of your car

[Astron_Boy]

hmmmm, really need to study my breaking mechanics

Would hurt to learn something about brakes also!

Meanwhile, it's a bit of a useless upgrade, and an extreme overkill one at that also.

[aza013]

hmmmm, really need to study my breaking mechanics

Would hurt to learn something about brakes also!

Meanwhile, it's a bit of a useless upgrade, and an extreme overkill one at that also.

Agree ^^^^^^^

[Astron_Boy]

Haha, just realised I stuffed up a word in my own troll. self

[Technikhaus]

^^

[vipfto]

best thing you could do is flush and bleed brakes that will give you more braking and better feel than just replacing discs/pads