Brakes..

Excellento - look forward to seeing you there…make sure your coolant hoses are fitted nice & tight :wink:

No, make sure I dont run over the grass and block the air intake for the rad up with cuttings!!!


:slight_smile:

I use EBC red … Ceramic…

No problems as yet !!

It’s the standard discs all round. Am thinking of upgrading to the 304mm discs and AP callipers. Anyone found them at less than the �1970 on hangar111? Feeling poor at the moment but fed up with rubbish brakes :frowning:

Www.seriouslylotus.com - speak to dave. Just over 1100 delivered - amazing deal.

That’s pretty good my only comment would be that i’d want alloy bell discs rather than the solid ones. Still good value.

mde
I can understand wanting ally belled discs as they look brilliant, but with the one piece discs its quite a saving at �974.95 plus vat for the kit and you could upgrade the next time you need discs?
Happy to chat things thru with anyone, send message and Ill let you have a phone number
Cheers

Also have the Caparo ap braking kit available with308mm/ ally bells 4pots brackets and hoses etc at �1095 +vat (on special offer ubtil end August) (but not yet in stock!!!)

Anyone serious about the AP upgrade should go on Seloc SELOC Classifieds

[quote=seriouslylotus]mde
I can understand wanting ally belled discs as they look brilliant, but with the one piece discs its quite a saving at �974.95 plus vat for the kit and you could upgrade the next time you need discs?
Happy to chat things thru with anyone, send message and Ill let you have a phone number
Cheers

Also have the Caparo ap braking kit available with308mm/ ally bells 4pots brackets and hoses etc at �1095 +vat (on special offer ubtil end August) (but not yet in stock!!!) [/quote]


I like the AP Racing setup but that Caparo setup is priced very temptingly… I’m just thinking in the long term if AP rotors would work with it when its time to replace them.

Another thing is an S2 Exige equipped to take a 4 pot caliper or am I gonna buy a 4 pot caliper setup and use it still as a 2? Its a stupid question I know but I’m a stupid person :smiley: haha…

seriouslylotus I might have to message you see if we can figure somthing out.

The caparo setup is indeed tempting, as long as the piston sizes are correct you will be fine :slight_smile:

Ditto - the ABS certainly slows you down slightly from optimum braking. Flat spotting tyres shouldn’t be an issue unless you get it horribly wrong and/or are running very soft tyres.

On a slightly different tack, I can’t recommend the Carbon Lorraine pads highly enough. Fitting them to all our race cars without a shadow of a doubt.

Jonny

These are interesting comments about Exige S brakes…

On my test drive yesterday, I gave the brakes a bit of a workout and was surprised how much less the bite and deceleration was compared to my non servoed ‘K’ Elise. Both cars have Pagid 42’s on them and OEM disks.

I can really nail the ‘K’ pedal very hard and the bite and braking is just amazing… And I have never locked up in the dry, but did in the greasy wet at Silverstone last Monday.

The Exige S pedal is much improved over the pre 06? long pedal of the early N/A Exiges, but still was quite long the harder I pressed. And that was very hard but got no ABS action until I really stood on them. Even so, the decel did not seem as sharp as the ‘K’'s.

I am struggling to work this one out! Surely if the ABS is cutting in, the wheel slip has reached the optimum for braking, yet my ‘K’ I am sure would out brake the Exige. Yes I know it is about 100kg lighter :crazy: but even so I would have and was expecting a much better stopping abiity that I observed.

I dont see the point of 4 pots when the standard 2 pot set-up works very well on even the fastest ‘K’ cars. So, is this a servo thing? or is the ABS just getting in the way behind the scenes?

Of all the things I noted yesterday, this was I guess the only thing that I thought could and must be improved!

Any further ideas chaps?

Pete. :slight_smile:

REALLY… � 300 ???

If so, I’ll have some too mate!

Do you remember I sold you a set of disks and pads a few years back! We met at a dodgy supermarket in Coventry! Funny now we both have (me almost!) an Exige S… and are talking brakes again!

Cheers,

Pete.

Bet the pads had had it on the S they should be as good as the K power cars

Nope! Just 2K miles… more meat than my ‘K’!

So, is this just a car specific ‘problem’ then Ade? Top brakes are the Biz and I need some TOP BRAKES!!!

Do braided hoses make the same difference as they do on the ‘K’?

(as an aside, when I test drove the Ice Blue S1 Exige last week, that car had Pagid 14’s and EP Ally Bells. The bite was totally spot on with LOTS of stopping power!)

Any advice/experience on the Exige S brakes would be much apreciated… I am on new ground here guys!!! :smiley:

Pete

I thought ABS on cars is there to “enable” steering, rather than provide maximum braking?

In due course you’ll want braided hoses (unlikely to be do-able without front clam removal), but avoid RS14 pads. Tarmac Terrorist probably has best 1st hand advice given his extensive race experience, & JSR undoubtedly know their stuff too.

Agreed, avoid RS14s like the plague, PF (dusty) or CL5 (not used myself) but have had good reports.

Braided hoses make a huge difference, I find my PFs get better as they get heat in them, which I really prefer, never liked the sharp feel of RS14 when cold and thenhardly work when warm, they were good when hot but destroyed the discs in no time :frowning:

[quote=ade]Agreed, avoid RS14s like the plague, PF (dusty) or CL5 (not used myself) but have had good reports.

Braided hoses make a huge difference, I find my PFs get better as they get heat in them, which I really prefer, never liked the sharp feel of RS14 when cold and thenhardly work when warm, they were good when hot but destroyed the discs in no time :frowning: [/quote]

Really surpised by the Pagid RS14 comments.

After trying so many pads, I’ve run nothing else but Pagid RS14 now for the last 4 years. First thing I did when I got my exige was chuck the mintex and fit RS14. They are dusty and sometimes noisy, but I’ve not found anything else that comes close on track, yet still pretty good on road - although I’ve not tried Carbon Lorraine yet…

RS14s have caused disc problems (pad transfer/warping) for quite a few folk on here, with S2 Exiges.

It is very interesting how people get different results. I guess it can only be driving style. I absolutly hate RS14’s, but I like RS42’s as a road / ocasional track pad. PF01’s are dusty and there can be “clag on your wheels” issues in the wet, but for outright stopping power and feel and initial bite I think they are the best and I have had pretty much everything in my car.

Horses for courses and all that.