Why do people buy these .££££
Mine are up for sale, but I am in the USA.
Spoon 4 pot monoblock Civic versions, from ICB.
Carbotech pads street/track, hats and DBA disks.
Whole kit 1,600USD, plus shipping.
@Freaky: no offence, that would be nice if you come from a 262mm on a normal civic, but switching from OEM EK9 calipers to WW Midilite's (I assume?) you end up loosing more then 1/3 of pad surface area, this means certainly no gain in brakepower and most likely loss of brakepower despite the caliper being fourpot, since brakepower is determined by 3 things:
Diameter of the disc (stays the same)
Piston area (same if you take matching pistons for master cilinder)
Pad surface (big loss with the small wilwood pad!)
While the expensive blue ones keep using the the large OEM pads. ;-)
If you want to use the light and small wilwood calipers/pads you need to compensate by using a larger disc.
You are wrong. Pad area is (almost) totally irrelevant to braking effort. If you don't know simple GCSE physics its not ideal to criticise someone's product.
Don't try and interpolate friction effects from tyres, as that is not a simple surface interaction like is the case with brake components.
The main consideration with pad area is that some pad compouds don't respond well to certain pressure profiles (such as EBC compounds don't work well in small pad area applications), and wear life!
JohnTurbo said:I would also say of the HiSpecs - (They look like Billet 4s?)
I had a set and they were very flexible and after 4 years the pistons locked in the bores....
They'll do fine for a few years but i'd suggest using braided hoses to try and counter the crap pedal feel.