Rear brake set up - Options

[Merde Francais]

I've currently got standard rear discs, pads and bearings on the car but the discs are due to be replaced shortly. Has anyone got recommendations on what to go for. The car is light so the rear doesn't do a huge amount of braking, ideally I just want a standard disc and pad with a good quality bearing, for less than £180 that Ktec want for an OEM set up.

 

[Foxspeed]

stick with standard and make sure they are strip & checked etc every year...

only option I would consider is grooved rear discs again with standard pads - rears don't need anything "better"

 

[TB Rich]

As fox says, don't need uprated on rear.

I've gone for Mtec grooved rears (and standard mintex pads) but only because I wanted the black zinc coating Mtec do for protection. If Mtec did solid I would have gone for those tbh.

 

[Merde Francais]

What was the quality like of the Mtec bearings?

 

[Womble]

Echo on Foxy, rear is not doing much so stock is best. If you up rate the front the rear is doing even less work, due to weight transfer. Grooves are the only option to brake the glaze on the pad as the pad doesn't get to work hard enough on the road. If you don't want rusty disc bells a coat of black engine paint makes them stay like new

 

[FISHBOY]

Any idea how thick a rear disc should be? Seem to have about 6-8mm on mine but MOT checkover recomended replacing them.

Car is 7 years old, with 50k on the clock and probably never been replaced, but like you say they dont do alot and im replacing all the fronts and am wondering if they are really necessary

 

[Big4244]

Depending on if its road or track, i have mintex 1144 front pads on grooved brembo discs and standard mintex rear, pads, again on grooved pagid discs

then for track, same discs but Mintex F2R front pads and 1144 Rears

Hope that helps

 

[Yiannis197]

@FISHBOY brand new is 11mm mate so if yours is 6mm are due I believe..

Re upgrading the rears I found that when I upgraded the fronts with a strong pad the braking was a bit unbalanced. I ended up with too much stopping power at the front and nothing at the back which was a bit unsettling. This time I'm upgrading the rears as well using the same compound as the front ones so I'll report back.

But the rears do work. Endless cases of the rear wheels being red hot after a blast in the Alps, another example was when I was following a fellow member in Wales when his mintex at the back were literaly smoking.

 

[FISHBOY]

@FISHBOY brand new is 11mm mate so if yours is 6mm are due I believe..

Re upgrading the rears I found that when I upgraded the fronts with a strong pad the breaking was a bit unbalanced. I ended up with too much breaking power at the front and nothing at the back which was a bit unsettling. This time I'm upgrading the rears as well using the same compound as the front ones so I'll report back.

But the rears do work. Endless cases of the rear wheels being red hot after a blast in the Alps, another example was when I was following a fellow member in Wales when his mintex at the back were literaly smoking.

Cheers fella for the good news :'(

 

[VolumeX]

a blast in the Alps... yuo got any footage or pics, sounds like that was a real trip!

 

[Yiannis197]

A few in my project thread mate [MENTION=53322]VolumeX[/MENTION] but here is a quick link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuz4o6gadU

 

[VolumeX]

Thank you kindly, wow. Thats really a great road. I've watched the Giro go over those roads for many years on TV. In a car, its a rush.

 

[CallorFold]

A few in my project thread mate @VolumeX but here is a quick link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXuz4o6gadU

[MENTION=2045]Yiannis197[/MENTION] damn that's awesome to watch! What a drive. I thought I had plenty of confidence in the Clio's handling but some of those corner speeds are unreal. Getting near the limit in 4th and throwing it into 5th is GOING SOME, then throwing it round a corner with nothing but a metal barrier and a cliff and hearing the tyres squealing :scared:

 

[Merde Francais]

@FISHBOY brand new is 11mm mate so if yours is 6mm are due I believe..

Re upgrading the rears I found that when I upgraded the fronts with a strong pad the braking was a bit unbalanced. I ended up with too much stopping power at the front and nothing at the back which was a bit unsettling. This time I'm upgrading the rears as well using the same compound as the front ones so I'll report back.

But the rears do work. Endless cases of the rear wheels being red hot after a blast in the Alps, another example was when I was following a fellow member in Wales when his mintex at the back were literaly smoking.

I was thinking about this when I ordered mine so I ended up going to mtec discs all round with standard pads.