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schlicky13 November 5, 2012
A late night brake job in the middle of July this year. It was way to friggin' hot this summer to work on the car during the day, and my dad's machine shop isn't air conditioned so that wasn't any better, so I just waited until long after dark and did it. I think I started some time after 11pm, by then it had gotten down into the 80's, so it didn't completely suck. BTW, for brakes, I'm running EBC slotted/dimpled rotors, the latest ceramic pads (I wanted to run EBC red pads, but they don't fit. Don't ask me why they say they fit, because they don't. They are correct to the calipers, and can be put in the calipers, but the pad material is way too thick. Even with old used rotors and the pistons pressed all the way into the calipers, there was no way these were going to fit onto the disc without grinding off at least a 1/4" of material from each pad. And I wasn't too inclined to try and grind that much material off of something that's meant to stop a 4000lbs chunk of metal thousands and thousands of times without taking off more than a tiny fraction of that much pad material.) Also added Goodrich stainless steel brake lines all the way around, and flushed the system and refilled with synthetic DOT4 fluid. Stops pretty damn good most of the time, but one hard stop from high speed cooks the brakes something fierce. They just aren't big enough to take that kind of abuse, so they will fade real fast and need to cool down again before they'll stop the car properly again. I'd love to do a rear-disc brake conversion, but there's a couple things to overcome with that, and I don't know if anyone has ever done it. I've looked into it before, but never really found much useful information.

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