Brakes - to upgrade or not? Bit confused.

[rtsbasic]

Just doing some research into making my brakes a bit better..my car has the Bendix front callipers, I don't know if I should replace these or just buy better pads/discs for them. This whole cars about improvements on a budget at the moment.

The reason for my hesitation is, the Peugeot 205 1.6 GTi shares the same callipers, I remember last summer test-fitting a dimpled/slotted disc from a pair a mate had purchased for his 205. That car had some good stopping power. Much more so than i currently have, after he changed the discs/pads for fast-road ones. So worth changing the system, or just upgrading bits for what it has?

Cheers.

[chiddy0407]

i would see what you can find at a scrappy mate, always worth a look

if you could get some cheap then nabb them!

[106Tom]

every scrap yard has a 306d in take calipers off one of them they would be an ideal upgrade. im sure there 266mm discs as well same as 306 xsi and 206gti

[aidy]

we should soon be offering 266,mm calipers discs and standard pads at a good rate. ready to fit to a 106 strut. ;)

[scotty]

we should soon be offering 266,mm calipers discs and standard pads at a good rate. ready to fit to a 106 strut. ;)

sounds a good little project that.

any 283 setup?

there are some 406 brembos on ebay, quite abit of dosh at the mo tho

[106Tom]

Aidy what a fookin good idea!!! need any help finding some calipers i can get them cheap at local scrappy like silly cheap!!!

[dee383]

we should soon be offering 266,mm calipers discs and standard pads at a good rate. ready to fit to a 106 strut. ;)

Would that be an improvement for Gti,s too

[106Tom]

yea discs are bigger pal.

[titch]

we should soon be offering 266,mm calipers discs and standard pads at a good rate. ready to fit to a 106 strut. ;)
Bugger. Might put the GTi calipers and discs up for sale when I can get some of these then.

[dee383]

Bugger. Might put the GTi calipers and discs up for sale when I can get some of these then.

Same idea as me
You watch there will be loads of sets of gti calipers and discs for sale all the same time

[rtsbasic]

Will the 266mm setup fit under standard steelies? Too cheap to spend out on alloys at the moment when I have a perfectly good set of tyres to burn through.

Every 306d has that setup? Sorted if thats the case, they're everywhere.

[106Tom]

They wont under 13's no they were very close when i had 14's on. . . i tryed some 13's with them on and there no way they would fit.

they need a bit of moddifing to fit to strut but only a corner of the caliper, any tool with a grinder can sort it out.

also ur 4 stud yea? cos they wont go on 3 stud.