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Brakes and Bars 200

posted by  don hodgdon on  Sat Jul 3 15:08 CST 2004
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Spent the morning under the 242t replacing the pads and rotors and installing a set of ipd 25/25 bars. Put Brembos on the rear and ATE Power Discs on the front with PBR Ceramic pads all around. After the install, I drove through the hills for a couple of hours bedding in the brakes and I'm real happy so far. The bars were installed with new poly bushings and I've not noticed any increase in ride harshness, but the handling improvement is quite noticable.

Anyone looking for a set of turbo bars? Got new poly bushings to go with them...

I took it easy on the brakes for today, mostly doubling my braking distances with just a handfull of long hard stops from high speed. I'm really hoping these brakes do the trick, the old ones (Zimmerman's and PBR Metalmaster) faded way too fast during any aggressive driving.

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don hodgdon '89 744ti, '81 242t, '71 D-35...in pieces on a repairman's bench :-(






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