Dear High-Temp Brake Fade:

"Desu-San-Desu" (Desu-San-Desu)
08/03/2014 at 10:17 • Filed to: None

Suck it.

-Cquence Absolute dimpled and slotted rotors

-Hawk HPS pads

-Valvoline Synthetic Dot3 & Dot4 High Temp (480° boiling point) brake fluid

Post-Install Note: The rotors make a really cool sound when being broken in. Sort of like a turbo chatter, but not as high pitched. It goes away as the pads seat and cool down, but when they're hot it sounds pretty dang cool hearing what I imagine is the gases being expelled.

DISCUSSION (15)

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Desu-San-Desu
08/03/2014 at 10:27

Dear low speed around town brake fade: hi. Panda life!

Desu-San-Desu > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/03/2014 at 10:30

Care to elaborate?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Desu-San-Desu
08/03/2014 at 10:33

I get brake fade after start stop around town for half an hour or more. Will be doing a brake fluid flush and maybe new rubber lines and master cylinder per an inspection. The joy of not so meticulously maintained used cars.

Desu-San-Desu > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/03/2014 at 10:43

Eh, I've got a little mushiness in my system, even after installing the new pads and rotors and doing a full bleed-flush-bleed. I figure that it's just a 23-year old car with old parts, so I'm gonna replace the master cylinder in the coming months once everything else on my immediate repair/replace list is done.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Desu-San-Desu
08/03/2014 at 11:10

Mine's only 9 years old but after 30 mins in city traffic a 10-0 stop became a change of underwear moment even though it was fine earlier and later on after a run on the motorway. I checked the fluid after and it looks like 2 year old motor oil... Time for a change methinks.

Slow4o > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/03/2014 at 11:27

I haven't had any problems with that, and have been running HPS's for like 4 years on the Mustang. Could be the difference in cars though.

Edit: I'm an idiot, and didn't really read your comment. I thought you were saying you weren't having any braking until the pads warmed up. Derp

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/03/2014 at 11:27

I'm curious as to why you would go to the trouble of replacing the brake lines with new rubber instead of braided stainless? Cost?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
08/03/2014 at 11:30

Because cheapskate. I'll only replace them if they look old or perished. Also it's only used for about town and the occasional B road run. I doubt I'd notice a huge difference with steel lines in that case.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Slow4o
08/03/2014 at 11:32

Haha I wish I had performance braking kit to worry about. My comment was a little ambiguous anyways.

PheeNoIVI > Desu-San-Desu
08/03/2014 at 12:11

How much did this cost? I'm going to upgrade my brakes on the Z. I want those rotors!

Desu-San-Desu > PheeNoIVI
08/03/2014 at 13:14

I got everything on sale over the course of a couple of weeks. Total cost for everything you see was right at $330.

dsigned001 - O.R.C. hunter > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
08/03/2014 at 21:31

I don't think the steel lines are terribly expensive. Maybe even less than the slotted rotors.

uofime > Desu-San-Desu
08/04/2014 at 10:06

Did you bleed it again after driving it a bit? Sometimes driving shakes bubbles loose in the system, so you might try bleeding it again and find that helps.

Desu-San-Desu > uofime
08/04/2014 at 10:36

I might actually take it to a shop and have them bleed it for me. Our carport is currently impossible to work in, as there's two motorcycles in various states of 'in pieces', meaning I can only fit on axle onto the concrete at the time and only have two jack stands. It takes nearly two hours to bleed the brakes right now.

uofime > Desu-San-Desu
08/04/2014 at 11:10

ha ha, always good to have projects!

I hate bleeding brakes