Brake pads

[Pappa Lurve]

Best pads for my 4.2 and also, any reason why my local chap cant do the work? I sthere anything different to TVR brakes as oppose to any other cr in terms of doing the pads?

[BLUETHUNDER]

Pappa Lurve said:

Best pads for my 4.2 and also, any reason why my local chap cant do the work? I sthere anything different to TVR brakes as oppose to any other cr in terms of doing the pads?

Nothing different with them.You can do them yourself.

[Pappa Lurve]

um, no i cant! I am usless bu thanks for that. best bads? I was going to go with green stuff cos I always liked them on my Esprit

[BLUETHUNDER]

Pappa Lurve said:

um, no i cant! I am usless bu thanks for that. best bads? I was going to go with green stuff cos I always liked them on my Esprit

Green stuff seem to be a bit hit and miss with some on here.Wait for a few more reply on other alternatives.

[TT Tim]

Red stuff are very good in the Cerb' and a good price too.

I have just replaced both axles and they were £85.85 delivered from: www.ebcbrakesdirect.com

You need:

Item Part Number Qty Unit Price Unit Weight Part Description
1. DP3002C 1 £47.38 1.5kgs Actual Redstuff Ceramic Brake Pads (Complete axle set, both wheels)
2. DP3102C 1 £32.96 0.8kgs Actual Redstuff Ceramic Brake Pads (Complete axle set, both wheels)

HTH

Tim

Edited by TT Tim on Saturday 15th March 20:07

[Toadusmodus]

Pappa Lurve said:

um, no i cant! I am usless bu thanks for that. best bads? I was going to go with green stuff cos I always liked them on my Esprit

I have green stuff on mine, cant really recommend them as they seem to be usless until warmed up. Will be changing them soon for something that works better from the off.

[Allandwf]

I have red stuff on my 4.2. Superb brakes, slight judder when cold but once warm excellent.

[TT Tim]

New reds seem to work very well from cold, in the past they've been a bit hit-and-miss until upto temp', I've been using EBCs for 7 or 8 years.

The new reds, now come with self adhesive anti squeel pads, mine used to squeel like a pig so I'll find out if they're any better tomorrow when I use the car in anger at the first TVRCC Speed Champ' sprint event of '08.

Tim

[Pappa Lurve]

TT Tim said:

Red stuff are very good in the Cerb' and a good price too.

I have just replaced both axles and they were £85.85 delivered from: www.ebcbrakesdirect.com

You need:

Item Part Number Qty Unit Price Unit Weight Part Description
1. DP3002C 1 £47.38 1.5kgs Actual Redstuff Ceramic Brake Pads (Complete axle set, both wheels)
2. DP3102C 1 £32.96 0.8kgs Actual Redstuff Ceramic Brake Pads (Complete axle set, both wheels)

HTH

Tim

Edited by TT Tim on Saturday 15th March 20:07

Reds it is! Are they I assume the first are correct for fron and the other correct for rear. I think i only need fronts but is it worth doing all round at the same time?

[Byker28i]

I'm using Mintex 1144's. Not quite as dirty as EBC and seem to work even when cold. Lots of feel

[TT Tim]

Pappa Lurve said:

TT Tim said:

Red stuff are very good in the Cerb' and a good price too.

I have just replaced both axles and they were £85.85 delivered from: www.ebcbrakesdirect.com

You need:

Item Part Number Qty Unit Price Unit Weight Part Description
1. DP3002C 1 £47.38 1.5kgs Actual Redstuff Ceramic Brake Pads (Complete axle set, both wheels)
2. DP3102C 1 £32.96 0.8kgs Actual Redstuff Ceramic Brake Pads (Complete axle set, both wheels)

HTH

Tim

Edited by TT Tim on Saturday 15th March 20:07

Yep, that's fronts and rears for a STANDARD 4.2 Caliper, if yours is a 4.5 please check which caliper you have.

If the car's going in for pads, it takes no longer than 15 mins to change the rears as you don't even need to remove the caliper from the upright, so, well worth doing IMHO

TIM

Reds it is! Are they I assume the first are correct for fron and the other correct for rear. I think i only need fronts but is it worth doing all round at the same time?

[Pappa Lurve]

ok, thanks tim. Much appreciated

[Nefarious]

Copied from one of my previous posts:
[quote]I've just spanked up the plastic for some Pagid Blues (RS-4) for the rear and Yellows (RS29) for the front.
I accept that they're quite likely to be pretty noisy, but the current EBC yellows aren't exactly church mice.
My thinking is that in road trim, the Cerb is heavier than its racing cousins and there's more weight transfer under braking (despite the track-biased Nitron set-up), so a high-friction endurance pad is probably the best overall solution. Given the lower burden taken by the rear, a more progressive pad which is less likely to snatch, is possibly a better bet.
[/quote]

[alderley]

Toadusmodus said:

Pappa Lurve said:

um, no i cant! I am usless bu thanks for that. best bads? I was going to go with green stuff cos I always liked them on my Esprit

I have green stuff on mine, cant really recommend them as they seem to be usless until warmed up.

Green really have bite once warmed up. When cold they are very 'wooden'. For speed championship events,I literally drive to the start line with my left foot on the brake pedal to warm them up. Otherwise it takes two corners before they work properly.

[TT Tim]

alderley said:

Toadusmodus said:

Pappa Lurve said:

um, no i cant! I am usless bu thanks for that. best bads? I was going to go with green stuff cos I always liked them on my Esprit

I have green stuff on mine, cant really recommend them as they seem to be usless until warmed up.

Green really have bite once warmed up. When cold they are very 'wooden'. For speed championship events,I literally drive to the start line with my left foot on the brake pedal to warm them up. Otherwise it takes two corners before they work properly.

That's odd, the reds I fitted on Friday have fantastic feel from cold, huge improvement, but that may be partly down to rebuilt calipers and new braded flexi-hoses.

I use the car on Sprints as well.

Worked well yesterday, just a shame my tyres didn't in the wet!!!!

Tim

[Pappa Lurve]

Ordered fronts but rears needed doing too. EBC sent the fronts but there is a fault on them as they wont fit, just very slight manufacturing error I guess. The rears I thought were ok but actually they are worse than the fronts so as I had a chap here doing them I was going to just buy from the TVR centre which is close to me. Found out though that you can slap on the front pads from a mini 1275GT! so I picked those up for £18.80! Front pads still have about 1.5k use on them so the car is good to go, although i will possibly not have a chance to bed them in before I take her out for a run on Sunday, but I guess rear pads are not as critical and I'll take it slow until I have driven maybe 30 miles.

Worth remembering the pads for the mini tip...

[TT Tim]

What's wrong with them, you say a manufacturing fault?

I 'shaved' mine very slightly on the bench grinder. to ensure they moved freely in the caliper.

Could have told you they were Mine front pads in the rear.

Tim

[Pappa Lurve]

Exactly, they need grinding. I dont mind doing that but I am bit peeved that they are not correct from word go as I now need to pay the chap to come back again...

[TT Tim]

Pappa Lurve said:

Exactly, they need grinding. I dont mind doing that but I am bit peeved that they are not correct from word go as I now need to pay the chap to come back again...

It's probabally only the thickness of the paint, I could have scrubbed the pad on the driveway and it would have been enough for them to move freely.

I'm also suspecting that there are variations in the calipers as a pad of mine fitted freely in one caliper and tight in another, so some of the 'blame', if there were any, would be with AP Racing too.

Think you may be over reacting a tad.

Tim

I have nothing to do with EBC, other than the fact I use their products.

Edited by TT Tim on Wednesday 19th March 16:22

[Pappa Lurve]

Maybe - but, and please, correct me if I am wrong cos I know nowt about these things... but should a part not just fit?!

Mechanic said he could grind it but as he was doing it outside my house, he needed to come back another day anyway. Had I been at garage I am sure it could have been sorted but to be fair, he changed the plugs on my BMW, did the rear pads, had a go at the fronts and the whole lot cost me £70 in labour. He will do the pads on the cerb, the throttle cable and change oil on the BMW fr £40 if I buy the parts.