Discussion
Been a while since I've updated this thread!
Last time, I had bought a Caterham ( thread here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... ) and was going to sell the 86. Well, in the end I didn't do the latter. Just couldn't bear to get rid of my favourite car. Even if I don't find as much time as I'd like to drive it, I know full well I'd regret selling it.
I have a sneaky suspicion manufacturers will stop making cars like the 86 soon. Everyone seems to be obsessing over multiple driving modes, and infotainment systems that can turn on your paddleshift oven 10 minutes before you pull up on your driveway; All unnecessary gimmicks in my opinion.
Manual cars that you can just get in a drive will soon be a thing of the past I fear. I notice buttons have crept onto the steering wheels of the facelift GT86/BRZ - a minor issue, but to me detracts from the simplicity of the car. ....Yes I am a bit of a luddite.
So the plan is to keep the 86 for as long as I can!
Celebratory doughnut, yay
! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKTtbTQDtU
I had recently been driving it and noticed the brakes weren't doing much in the way of slowing me down. The current set had done a full day at Blyton and plenty of hoonage in the past year or so.
So a new set of Hawk front pads were ordered from Fensport:
Last time I swapped the pads over, I copper greased all the relative bolts so everything came apart fairly easily:
New vs old:
There was more meat on the old pads than expected. I thought they were going to be nearly down to the metal.
Although the inner pads on both sides were quite badly pitted.
When the car's sat overnight having been driven in the rain, the pads stick to the discs. I can hear a "clunk" as they release when driving off the next day. Wonder if this has caused it... Can any brake experts shed light on this?
New pads in:
Who needs a piston rewind tool!:
That red stuff is supposed to be anti-squeal grease. 86's can be notorious for this.
All back together again, and ready for bedding in:
I used the Italian tune up method of bedding the pads in:
Find a nice stretch of straight road, do 3 - 4 stops to from 45mph. Don't stop completely. This gets the brakes warmed up a bit so they're not going from clap cold to red hot in the next process.
Then do 10 aggressive stops from 60mph to 15mph. Again, don't stop completely.
After this cruise around for 10 minutes trying to use the brakes as little as possible to allow the pads to cool down.
Never used this method before, but it seems to have done the trick.
Next plan will be a track day hopefully. Keen to do a wet day so I can really have a play without being told off for tyre squeal!
Last time, I had bought a Caterham ( thread here: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... ) and was going to sell the 86. Well, in the end I didn't do the latter. Just couldn't bear to get rid of my favourite car. Even if I don't find as much time as I'd like to drive it, I know full well I'd regret selling it.
I have a sneaky suspicion manufacturers will stop making cars like the 86 soon. Everyone seems to be obsessing over multiple driving modes, and infotainment systems that can turn on your paddleshift oven 10 minutes before you pull up on your driveway; All unnecessary gimmicks in my opinion.
Manual cars that you can just get in a drive will soon be a thing of the past I fear. I notice buttons have crept onto the steering wheels of the facelift GT86/BRZ - a minor issue, but to me detracts from the simplicity of the car. ....Yes I am a bit of a luddite.
So the plan is to keep the 86 for as long as I can!
Celebratory doughnut, yay
! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKTtbTQDtUI had recently been driving it and noticed the brakes weren't doing much in the way of slowing me down. The current set had done a full day at Blyton and plenty of hoonage in the past year or so.
So a new set of Hawk front pads were ordered from Fensport:
Last time I swapped the pads over, I copper greased all the relative bolts so everything came apart fairly easily:
New vs old:
There was more meat on the old pads than expected. I thought they were going to be nearly down to the metal.
Although the inner pads on both sides were quite badly pitted.
When the car's sat overnight having been driven in the rain, the pads stick to the discs. I can hear a "clunk" as they release when driving off the next day. Wonder if this has caused it... Can any brake experts shed light on this?
New pads in:
Who needs a piston rewind tool!:
That red stuff is supposed to be anti-squeal grease. 86's can be notorious for this.
All back together again, and ready for bedding in:
I used the Italian tune up method of bedding the pads in:
Find a nice stretch of straight road, do 3 - 4 stops to from 45mph. Don't stop completely. This gets the brakes warmed up a bit so they're not going from clap cold to red hot in the next process.
Then do 10 aggressive stops from 60mph to 15mph. Again, don't stop completely.
After this cruise around for 10 minutes trying to use the brakes as little as possible to allow the pads to cool down.
Never used this method before, but it seems to have done the trick.
Next plan will be a track day hopefully. Keen to do a wet day so I can really have a play without being told off for tyre squeal!
Edited by ECG1000 on Thursday 2nd March 12:17
ECG1000 said:
So the plan is to keep the 86 for as long as I can!
Famous last words..... Edited by ECG1000 on Thursday 2nd March 12:17
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