Abstract:

Doing some highway pulls in my 500whp car and having the brakes fade with race compound pads was unnerving. I decided it was time to upgrade the front brakes. After looking into the idea for months, I stumbled across a combination of ideas. Type R caliper remans can be had for dirt cheap <$30. This is nothing new.The problem was always finding rotors that would work or needed to be drilled and machining the caliper bracket to clear. I felt, along with my colleagues there had to be a rotor that would fit the bill somewhere.





I found a thread on Honda tech where someone had used a Mini Cooper rotor and it bolted up no problem. The hub bore was exactly the same as our Hondas and the 11” diameter fits the bill for the caliper. I bit the bullet I guess you could say and ordered Calipers, Rotors, Pads, and Stainless lines. I was super happy when the ONLY modification needed was trimming of the dust shield to clear the bigger caliper. No machining of the bracket is neccesary to center the pad either. These combined with EBC reds just destroy my tires at threshold braking which I don’t remember being able to do even auto crossing.