Spoon caliper HELP~

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16-10-2005, 10:48 PM
.::F[L]Y::.

hehehe was waiting for you to post 'Joe' . Was urs like that when u first installed ur calipers??

thanks for your help fellas....will be looking into it.
17-10-2005, 11:54 AM
MKI4EVA

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Originally Posted by s2king

As a matter of fact brake stoper does exactly that job, which is to give you that firm brake feel. You should try it yourself first and then put a post up. If I say that it will help someone from having (in this case) brake feel, then ive actualy tryed it and know for a fact.

Fly: you would rather exhaust the cheapest solutions first, get the brake stoper, trust me it will solve your brake feel problem. Thats all that the brake stoper does, it stops the brake cylinder from moving forward under hard braking, which causes that spoungeness.

did you have spongy brake feel as well before you put on the brake stoper?

or did you put it on because you tracked your car heaps and got bad brake feel?
17-10-2005, 12:23 PM
s2king

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Originally Posted by MKI4EVA

did you have spongy brake feel as well before you put on the brake stoper?

or did you put it on because you tracked your car heaps and got bad brake feel?

All S2000 have that spoungy brake feel when you brake hard, its just a fact, even if you have standard brakes. My car has only done 5000klm its a 2005 model so no I havnt tracked it, and never will.
And I know the difference because ive put one on, and makes a huge difference in brake feel, not nessasaraly brake performance, just the spounginess is almost gone. about a 60% improvement.
17-10-2005, 01:06 PM
Perry

fly's s2k doesnt feel spoungy b4 the brake i grade, im 100% sure, but after the install the feel was diff and spoungy
17-10-2005, 01:17 PM
s2king

Hey Fly, did you upgrade your brake lines? if you baught the spoon calipers, they should have come with brake lines I think.
17-10-2005, 02:40 PM
MKI4EVA

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Originally Posted by s2king

All S2000 have that spoungy brake feel when you brake hard, its just a fact, even if you have standard brakes. My car has only done 5000klm its a 2005 model so no I havnt tracked it, and never will.
And I know the difference because ive put one on, and makes a huge difference in brake feel, not nessasaraly brake performance, just the spounginess is almost gone. about a 60% improvement.

did you do anything else before you added the brake brace to try and minimise the spoogyness?

I'm just wondering.

I'm really suprised a performance car like a s2k has a down side like that.
17-10-2005, 06:57 PM
fatboyz39

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Originally Posted by s2king

Hey Fly, did you upgrade your brake lines? if you baught the spoon calipers, they should have come with brake lines I think.

not that i know of...but yea the stock s2k setup is quite good on the track imo. But i just wanted something abit better. Im now probably gona reflush the brake fluid and use motul brake fluid instead of oem....i think that could be the cause of this problem....
17-10-2005, 07:29 PM
ITRBoI

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Originally Posted by .::F[L]Y::.

hehehe was waiting for you to post 'Joe' . Was urs like that when u first installed ur calipers??

thanks for your help fellas....will be looking into it.

mine was the same as yours a bit soft and spongy like you said but since the brake cylinder stopper comes in....oh baby....foot down and it stops no question ask, but what i notice after putting that in, ABS tends to go in earlier as well....but its all good once you get used to your braking :D
17-10-2005, 09:24 PM
.::F[L]Y::.

what fluid did u use though? oem honda or aftermarket...i checked on s2ki and those who have it said that motul will improve the feel?
17-10-2005, 09:39 PM
ITRBoI

i used the castrol one.....but i heard the s2000 its best to use the one from honda....well at least that is what my mech recommands anyway
17-10-2005, 09:46 PM
VTECACCORD

i have the spoon brakes on my itr, and they are not spongy at all. I have a suspision your brakes have not been bled properly, so you may have air in the system.

Trying bleeding them again and see how that feels
17-10-2005, 11:09 PM
MKI4EVA

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Originally Posted by VTECACCORD

i have the spoon brakes on my itr, and they are not spongy at all. I have a suspision your brakes have not been bled properly, so you may have air in the system.

Trying bleeding them again and see how that feels

True, theres no way you can change such a large part to the system such as front calipers and not bleed it from rear to front.

Cost is small and worth a try.

For you guys who have the brake stopper any chance you can post up a pic of it? I'm amazed it gives "about a 60% improvement". Even if this is a over estimation it's still a huge improvement if it were even 30%.

If it works that well i'll blardy make one for my car :D .

Do you guys run proportioning valves from the master brake cylinder for brake bias adjustment??

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