brake disc and pad advice

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:49 pm

hey guy's

my car is coming up for it's MOT and along with needing new tyres (which i already have and will get fitted this weekend) i need new discs, the pads are ok but i'd be just as well changing them too.

i was going to get the S2 turbo groved discs off elise parts? they're about 260 notes for 4 and i just wanted a little feed back on them? i don't have 800 quid to spend on discs as i'm currently doing up my house and natalie would kill me!!

also what pads do i get? i've not got a scooby about pads

ninja

dr al · Post by **dr al** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:41 pm

i'm loving my new mintex pads.

A.

Post by **campbell** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:00 pm

Turbogroove discs are super. Made by EBC, and the Eliseparts price seems reasonable but check out http://www.ebcdirect.co.uk (or .com?) to be sure.

Campbell

dr al · Post by **dr al** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:07 pm

Eliseparts = full set of turbo grooved brakes £255 + vat - free delivery

check this one out

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LOTUS-ELISE-288-M ... dZViewItem

could save you the vat! - i.e.£251 inc vat inc delivery

A.

Kev · Post by **Kev** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:27 am

I went for a full set of EBC turbo grooved discs and Mintex pads last year. I'm really happy with them

. It's nice I can stop now, since I could rid of those greenstuff pads.

ninja · Post by **ninja** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:40 am

thanks guy's always best to check before throwing money away!!!

ninja

Tom · Post by **Tom** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:49 am

ninja wrote:thanks guy's always best to check before throwing money away!!!

ninja

before getting the turbo grooved jobs, chat to Stu160 (stu pollock) on here. He grooves his own from stock EBC. will be marginally cheaper than eliseparts, with the benefit of the grooves running right to the edge of the disc face. i believe the turbo grooved ones, the grooves stop before the edge, and can therefore do something funny to the pads... (robin??) also, good to throw the business to a fellow SEr i reckon

Pads wise, mintex maybe, ask simon about SBS, or Pagids that everyone goes on about. depends how hard on the brakes you are. I'm pretty hard on them and went for pagids. i tried them once and went back to OE. i much prefer their level of bite(the pagids). different strokes and all that though...

HTH

Post by **campbell** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:20 pm

Er, last time I looked my "terbo" grooves ran all the way to the edge of the disc...but perhaps I better check in case it is costing me a couple of bhp!