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Rough Luck;16142 wrote: wrote:

They are amazing, you dont realise how bias you are to the from with 305mm's an AP calipers, you seem to have proper brakes if that makes sense and the car is a lot more level even when braking hard

Next I have a cuming plan to make 305mm rear vented disc apdation but that means new calipers so will cost a fortune

Yeah , it always surprised me that MGR just whacked a bigger setup on the front and expected it to work properly.

I don't want to say too much, but... there may be an interesting development on the MGF/TF brake issue coming up soon. Maybe after christmas.

David Aiketgate;16150 wrote: wrote:

Yeah , it always surprised me that MGR just whacked a bigger setup on the front and expected it to work properly.

I don't want to say too much, but... there may be an interesting development on the MGF/TF brake issue coming up soon. Maybe after christmas.

don't say that I've only just finished mine...lol although I did try to do it properly after I finished them and contacted EBC to make 280mm discs but I got an email yesterday saying sorry but its a no go

Rough Luck;16152 wrote: wrote:

don't say that I've only just finished mine...lol although I did try to do it properly after I finished them and contacted EBC to make 280mm discs but I got an email yesterday saying sorry but its a no go

I'll pm you.

Sounds very james bond....lol

How about my next cunning plan

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Rough Luck;16142 wrote: wrote:

They are amazing, you dont realise how bias you are to the from with 305mm's an AP calipers, you seem to have proper brakes if that makes sense and the car is a lot more level even when braking hard

Next I have a cuming plan to make 305mm rear vented disc apdation but that means new calipers so will cost a fortune

I still think it could be a route to fit something like the front APs and keep the standard calipers for handbrake. It means you would have 2 calipers on each disk, but you should be able to source calipers cheaper.

Yeah thats the sort of thing I'm playing around with now, but using normal AP (take vented) and standard rears (taking solid) is the problem

So I've found a 4 pot rear caliper that would take a vented disc, and has a hand brake fixing the same as F / TF, and because it can take vented discs, I could go with 280mm vented elise ones or 305mm F ones depending on how the block is set up

One thing stopping me.........I'm skint again...lol

Rough Luck;16158 wrote: wrote:

One thing stopping me.........I'm skint again...lol

Tell me about it. If I didn't already have the money put aside for the Carbon Bonnet project I would have had to cancel it. I wanted to go ahead with the CF boot too, but just have no money. I think the economy is really starting to bite now.

Clive, did you ever get your car on the brake tester to quantify the improvement in rear brakes?