Hi all, Thinking of upgrading my brakes on my 3dr Sierra Cosworth.

Whats the best setup I can get for around £500-£600

I guess for that price I will be just upgrading the Discs and pads and not the calipers.

I just cant spend £1700.00 on some APs at the moment.

Cheers
Ray

 

you may get a cheap 2nd hand set of ap's for that money
i was going to fit evo 6-9 4pot brembo's on mk1 focus rs discs only problem is you will need to make brake pipes for them

 

Hey, I have been looking for some used APs on ebay and this site, But nothing aint coming up.

Cheers
Ray

 

i had some focus mk1 callipers on my saph with 328mm disks, this worked realy well and cost around 400quid. Look around on here and ebay theres loads of deals to be had.

Ive now got tarrox 6pots which are awsome think i paid 700 for them

 

I have been looking at these, But I am just not sure.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 

what size wheels ? what power ?

 

Power is about 350BHP but I might up that soon to 400ish.

17"CXNs

£700 for the Tarox. I take it that was used price?

Cheers
Ray

 

i found i was on the limit of my standard brakes at 330 but other people say they work ok. Yeah the tatox where second hand of paul at north yorks.

For the money i dont think you can beat the focus brembos with ferodo pads

 

When you say Focus brembos. Do you mean Brembo Discs or the calipers?

 

both mate

 

IIRC CXN's have issues with clearance on brakes, Ask brammer on here as he has the same wheels and was changing his brakes, i think if you change calipers they catch the rim even on bigger 4 pot calipers.

Best to ask Brammer.

Pete

 

Ray, are yours the old Style Splits or the new?

Reason i ask is the new were designed to take a BIGGER Calliper...

 

Pete, They are the old style CXNs.

Cheers
Ray

 

Well forget anything 6 Pot then Ray and iirc, i'm running around 370-380bhp on uprated discs and pads with standard Callipers and it stops a treat tbh....

I'd only upgrade mine if i were going to Track the car and that AINT going to happen..

 

i got my ap 4 pots with 330's for £500 2nd hand, THE best thing i have done to the car.

 

They're plenty good enough, had them on my old 450bhp Saff and they pulled you up like a MO-FO.....

 

yep, effortless, no hassle! even from stupid speeds.
Unlike the standard ones where i had to pre plan my braking from about 2 miles away.

 

Sound advice mate. If I cant fit the big brakes, I will just get some uprated Discs and get some Ferrodo 2500s or some Yellow stuff pads.

Cheers
Ray

 

The std 2wd 4 pots do lack when at speed and stamping on the brakes even with decent pads, can't imagine what the 4wd brakes are like.
I've also got tarox 6 pots with 330 discs/bells, can't wait, just got to buy my 17" wheels now so I can use them.
tabetha

 

second that on the standard stoppers

 

Focus RS Brembos, Focus RS discs (324mm x 28mm), brackets to mount caliper to hub, decent set of pads and a full set of braided hoses.... all for about £600-£700.

Trouble with Mitsi Evo calipers is they were designed with 32mm thick discs in mind.


Steve

 

I got a set of Focus RS Brembo Calipers for £140 quid, not sure what the disc and pads will cost, but the lines and brackets won't be a killer.

 

are they usually any good, the mitsi brembo's?
A mate has an Evo and we where have a spirited drive the other day, he lost his pedal and had smoke billowing off his brakes, my ap's where fine!

 

On my 2wd sapph Have always used Black Diamond combo disc's and ebc pads never had any problems, as said above braided hoses and something most people neglect flush out the old fluid and replace with some decent dot 4, have not long ago done mine for the first time in about 9 yrs made all thedifferencee

 

mine where fine with stage 1 power, would get warm after some heavy driving but never failed.
Alot of people told me id need better ones when i upped the power, i thought it was a load of crap, not so!
The speeds are alot different and the brakes work sooo much harder, i could loose my pedal in a matter of minutes.

 

A lot of suggestion about the Focus discs & callipers here. What size wheels do you have to run to fit them? Can you get them under 15's for example?

 

You can squeeze the Focus RS setup under some motorsport style 16" wheels (I'm 99% sure Christian had the setup under a set of 16" ProRace wheels), defo a big no under 15's.


Steve

 

You have the option of using big alloy calipers with big pads and original size discs. Here's a pair of big alloy HiSpec calipers with DS3000 pads under 15" wheels:

 

Ap5200 fit on but with spacers - NY Paul fitted them with 5mm spacers but i think he's on 8" fronts - mine are 7.5" and i can't afford extra width with the height of the car

I tried FRS set up and they touch the studs on the rear even when fitting around 10mm spacers.

 

I just wanted to appologise to everyone for my last post on here, seems the admin thought I was advertising and I got a infraction for it, but I've no doubt this will get deleted also, let's see.
tabetha

 

i've just bought focus mk1 discs and callipers (brembo 4 pots), brakets (inc all bolts/spacers), and braided brake lines for £390 all in second hand. the £390 includes having the discs slightly machined to remove the tiny lip they had.
s1cab

 

compbrake do calipers for good money as well

 

That was a good deal..... my pricing was based on...

Calipers (2nd hand) - £200
Decents discs (new) - £125
Decent pads (new) - £125
Brackets (new) - £100
Braided lines front and rear (new) - £75

Total - £625

 

yeah see what your saying ^^

i did get a good deal though