MAZOC "ZDayZ 2012 Wrap-Up" at Gordon Biersch, 7PM Saturday June 2nd in ANNAPOLIS, MD

RandyD

that motorboat action was funny...

4r3s

Shahid, how'd the brake upgrade go?

MightyBobo

Painted, installed. Bleeding is proving interesting - it's taking far more bleeding than I expected (read: compared to the sport package) to get a good pedal feel. First time we did it, it was downright scary to drive, but it was 1 AM so he took it home and brought it back last night. After last night, at least when he presses the 1st time, he can lock up the tires, but there's a LOT of pedal travel.

So, he's going to have to come back and re-bleed again, likely Thursday to finish it off.

I need to do a little research on the non-sports and see if there's anything peculiar you need to do with them vs. the Sport package brakes, because those were amazingly easy to bleed compared to his so far...

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b1adesofcha0s

Exactly. After the first night, I would have to pump the brakes 3-4 times to get the car to slow down which is very scary. At least I knew about it so I drove slower, braked early, and tried to use engine braking as much as I could.

Got much better after last night and I can safely drive my car around. I noticed that if I push the pedal down normally, it goes like a little past halfway to the floor before it does anything and you have to get like 3/4 of the way down to get any real stopping. If I push the pedal down quickly, I can get some slowing down at around halfway to the floor.

Good news is that whenever I did reach the point were the brakes started working, they stopped the car much better than before. Hopefully we will get it completely fixed on Thursday night so I will let you know how the new brake setup is after that.

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