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brake disc and pad advice
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:49 pm
by ninja
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
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:41 pm
by dr al
i'm loving my new mintex pads.
A.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:00 pm
by campbell
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
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:07 pm
by dr al
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:27 am
by Kev
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:40 am
by ninja
thanks guy's always best to check before throwing money away!!!
ninja
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:49 am
by Tom
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
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 10:20 pm
by campbell
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!