OK, here's some answers to the questions fro me since last time I checked the thread:

1. No handbrake, since the rear calipers do not have any provision for it. As Max said, you do not miss it. You could always carry a wheel chock if you lived in a hilly city

2. The brakes are manual. I do not miss the power assist. In fact, the feel is a lot better. To me power brakes seem to be almost linear in force required from your leg, and with power assist, to brake harder you only push down on the pedal farther, as opposed to pushing harder. I like the "push harder to stop harder" idea. I am also a bigger guy, and so do find that I tend to push too hard on power assisted brakes.

3. I still have the anti-lock module.

4. The BFG at 265 front looks fine. To me, I notice that the sidewall is a bot taller than on the rears, but no one else I have pointed that out to has said it was obvious. The overall wheel width is 11" on the outside. Bead to bead it is 10".

5. I think Mark Valskis (Valspeed) took down his web pages on the brakes. The link I have no longr works. Mark and Duane Krumweide of Crooked Willow Racing had a few joint projects going, so here is Duane's company:

http://www.crookedwillow.com/

Cheers,

Steve

 

Corrked Willow Racing has awesome carbon fiber brake ducts. I am not sure if Duane is still producing these. In fact, now that I am thinking about it, he was going to hand these off to someone else. I will check on that, but in the mean time, here is a link and some pics:

http://www.crookedwillow.com/brakeduct.htm




Cheers,

Steve

 

Damn that duct is very nice!

 

Hey, that's a picture my old car's steering knuckle when we installed Duane/David's duct on it... ahhhhhh, it so cute with the stock setup!!

 

Hey Carlos,

How have you been?

The photo is from Duane's Crooked Willow site.

Cheers,

Steve

 

Any more? Does anyone have a picture of the AP 6 pistons?

 

Like Max...
AP front kit:
http://www.negative-camber.org/crispyrx7/apracing.htm
And a comparison with my old Mandeville BBK

and new RZ rear kit with 2 piece rotors:
http://www.negative-camber.org/crispyrx7/rearbrake.htm

FWIW... and sorreeee no 6 pistons on my car... I'm too poor
Crispy

 

Here are some pictures of my Seven's Only Big brake kit. 11.75in rotors with four piston Outlaw calipers. These are on the front of my 84' GSL-SE.

 

I have the six piston AP kit on my FD. 14 inch in front and 13 in the rear. The rear has 4 piston Brembo calipers. If A-Spec would post the photos you all could see them. They have the Distribution rights to the kit I developed. Maybe Sean will see this and post pics?
1R1

 

With this new forum format, maybe I can post pics myself. Ill try some today.
Stand by
1R1

 

Seems like A-Spec has alot of cool stuff that nobody knows about because it isn't on their site.

 

I have tried to post photos but was unsuccessful, try going to www.imagestation.com and search FD3racer, there are 6 or 7 pics of the brake kit there

front compare


front on car


front top view


rear 1


rear 2


rear 3


rear compare



1R1

 

Fuggggg........... That ****'s dope!

 

zoinks... very nice.

-Mark

 

Ha Ha very funny with the getting the pictures up I'm not allowed to post pictures Rick, and I remember putting on your Brembo's Steve, fun job. I run the stoptech fronts and will be putting the kit Rick worked so hard on in the rear. The BFG are the way to go Let me know if you need a set. I get them cheaper than anywhere, and no I cannot post a price either.