I did a search of something similar on this forum and came up empty...so here is mine



Ice Pick to push out the pins after removing cottar pins



Push back pads with towel and large pliers



Remove shims



Watch brake fluid level



Clean parts




Apply brake squeal reducer on back of pads and shims and insert after 10 minutes



Cottar pin



Place spring and insert second pin and cottar


Done



Move to the back...but now the pins come towards you





Use 130 or so grit to sand the rust from the hubs where the wheels make contact and clean the old brake material off of the rotors...per instructions on hawk hps sight. Now bed your pads per manufactures directions. Mine were approx 8 moderate force stops from 35 and 2-3 hard stops from 45, then let brakes cool. I have had no problems with squealing or vibration in the pedal since the swap.

 

Great write up.

 

Very nice write up and great pics

 

nice write up. the brembos make pad changes so easy. i had never done anything with breaks and was able to knockout the rear pad change in like 30 min including removing wheels, jacking up, pad change, put wheels on, and drop the car. gotta love it. anyway point is, people should not be scared to change their own pads. it is really simple.

 

Thanks for the great write up !!!

 

How many miles did your brake pads last? Good work, thanks a lot!

 

Nice !

I haven't seen gold calipers with red letering in a long while !
It's more like bronze with black lettering on mine...

 

I had about 21000 miles, but had just under half the pads left. I was doing a track day and wanted fresh pads.

I have only done two track days so far at sebring, and have not really pushed the brakes that hard, just working on the smoothness and the line...So I haven't cooked the paint yet

I did two recordings this last day. Unfortunately my better video is to big to host on Streetfire, so I could only post my shorter video when I was out on track with the faster cars with the more experienced drivers. I got a lap of 3 minutes 2 seconds though my 12 minute video that was a bit to big to post on streetfire. Not bad for my second outing I think, nor did my instructor.

 

How big is your big video ?

I could host it. 1,500 gig of bandwidth not doing much these days...

 

235 megs. My definition of good is four clean laps on a track that was fairly empty during the last novice session of the day...just about 12 minutes. I pass a couple of s2000's, z3, and a E36 generation M3. But it is basically just clear laps. It is my favorite of the three videos I recorded.

a couple of pics

 

I'll set you up with a temporary FTP account and you can upload it. I'll pm you when it's done.

 

Cool...thanks

 

Excellent thread.....maybe it should be a sticky?

 

Sticky Bump Thanks for the feedback