Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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Brakes.
Are the 1.4 brakes ALL crap? or is it just mine?
what can I do to improve them? any upgrades? if so... links please.
I would ask on CCUK, but I'll just get told to search 
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Gary
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Registered: 22nd Nov 06
Location: West Yorkshire
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Decent disks and pads. SRi disks and calipers? Not sure on the size etc or if there interchangeable. not worked on a C yet
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Corsa E-Tec
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Registered: 4th Feb 04
Location: Stevenage Drives: Leon Cupra
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get the 1.8 disks and calipers 
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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1.8 Discs all round Robin ma boy  mine are superb.
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Robin
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but the 1.8 front calipers are the same as the 1.4 ones 
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Dean_W
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Maybe the master cylinder is bigger?
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andy1868
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
but the 1.8 front calipers are the same as the 1.4 ones
just pretend they aren't 
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
but the 1.8 front calipers are the same as the 1.4 ones
no they arent  i am pretty sure the 1.4 calipers wont accomodate 260x26mm discs
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L885 1.28v
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Registered: 7th Aug 03
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^ I think you should look into it, the only C that has bigger front brakes in the 1.7 CDTI
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Robin
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
quote:
Originally posted by Robin
but the 1.8 front calipers are the same as the 1.4 ones
no they arent i am pretty sure the 1.4 calipers wont accomodate 260x26mm discs
I think you'll find my brakes to be 260x26mm 
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Cybermonkey
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you need rear discs then 
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Dave A
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Registered: 10th Dec 03
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the brakes on my 1.8 are fantastic, prefer them to my 4pots on the Gsi anyday.
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MKC
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Registered: 8th Oct 04
Location: Bath
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black diamond discs and pads are supposed 2 be good.
heard green stuff discs warp easily.
last i heard, LMF were trying 2 develop a 308mm kit for the C (other 308/320mm kits won't fit cause of the carriers on the C are different 2 other vauxhalls')
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L885 1.28v
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
you need rear discs then
Which wont really make much difference
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corsa-sxi
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Location: Kingston upon Hull
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my 1.2 brakes are crap, ive had the fluid changed and bled, reear drums re-aligned and all cleaned up, see if that helps
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Robin
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I'll keep and eye out fot the 308mm setup then MKC 
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by L885 1.28v
quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
you need rear discs then
Which wont really make much difference
the braking power on my SRi is awesome actually, which is probably partly down to the rear disc setup
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