Ok, so I took my clio cup on track last weekend, and although the car felt good, the brakes were utter crap (to be expected as I have no idea what they are, as i've only had the car a couple of weeks).
Anyhow after 2 laps I lost all feel to the brakes and even now, I don't get much feel from them on the road, so I suspect the pads are glazed and the fluid needs changing.
I will be fitting new Brembo HC discs, and ATE Super Blue fluid.
Just need some advice on which pads to go for really.
The car is a daily runabout but will also see the track as often as I can.
So i'm looking at ds2500, ds3000, ebc bluestuff (shame they don't seem to do orangestuff for the clio's yet), or CL RC5+ (pagid blue's and pf pads seem over priced to me).
I've never used any of the above before except the ds2500 on my old Evo 6 as they came with the ap brake kit I had on it.
Initially I thought the ds2500 were great on that (circa 400bhp), but once the power went up (well over 600bhp), I felt the ds2500's were crap, they would fade very quickly and never seems to give much initial bite or provide any real confidence, therefore i'm a little unsure about using them on the clio (even though it's much less powerful).
So out of the 4 that i've mentioned, which do you think would be best suited for my needs ?
I know that when it comes to brakes it's a pretty personal thing, but I like brakes that I can have confidence in, and will give good bite every time without huge amounts of dust and as little squeal as possible (yes I want to have my cake and eat it
).
Anyhow after 2 laps I lost all feel to the brakes and even now, I don't get much feel from them on the road, so I suspect the pads are glazed and the fluid needs changing.
I will be fitting new Brembo HC discs, and ATE Super Blue fluid.
Just need some advice on which pads to go for really.
The car is a daily runabout but will also see the track as often as I can.
So i'm looking at ds2500, ds3000, ebc bluestuff (shame they don't seem to do orangestuff for the clio's yet), or CL RC5+ (pagid blue's and pf pads seem over priced to me).
I've never used any of the above before except the ds2500 on my old Evo 6 as they came with the ap brake kit I had on it.
Initially I thought the ds2500 were great on that (circa 400bhp), but once the power went up (well over 600bhp), I felt the ds2500's were crap, they would fade very quickly and never seems to give much initial bite or provide any real confidence, therefore i'm a little unsure about using them on the clio (even though it's much less powerful).
So out of the 4 that i've mentioned, which do you think would be best suited for my needs ?
I know that when it comes to brakes it's a pretty personal thing, but I like brakes that I can have confidence in, and will give good bite every time without huge amounts of dust and as little squeal as possible (yes I want to have my cake and eat it
).
