As much as I like true performance I also like style. My disk brakes are great and there are things I could do to improve upon the current set up and all would be great. BUT...:
I want more. Call it a ricer if you want but I'd like big disks with four piston calipers if for nothing else but the wow effect. I might even use drilled disks!!!I know, sinfull and useless. But wouldn't it look cool with red calipers behind open five spoke gunmetal finish 17" rims?!
I found a write up on the Mazspeed site about using the FC brakes on the FB cars. Anybody try this? How about a different means of getting big brakes? I'd like to fill 17"s with brakes & I'm thinking 11-12" disks will be necessary to do it. Any thoughts?

 

My car has FD calipers (red painted ) on cross-drilled vented discs at the front.

 

So im guessing your using the FD Rotors aswell.... Any pics of the set up? Or possibily explaining what was involved in this set up?

 

It was on the car when I bought it. I'm going to redo a lot of things this winter (brake lines etc), 'll take pics and post them then.

 

17's on an FB....mannn cmon don't....u'd jus be killin it

 

17's i think are perfect.... Don't know if you saw AJC13b's car, the 17's he had on there looked really good.. I kinda regret going to 16's, espically since 17's have a much better tire selection.

 

got any pics of his car?

 

http://www.ajc13b.com/main.htm Check out his website....Look through his rx7 section i believe.... Its a red rx7 with gold wheels..

 

woah....that looks pretty sick actually....i take back my "no 17's on an FB" comment!

 

FB's can look good with 17's, but I don't think I would ever go bigger than 16...

 

sevens only sells a kit. 11.75" rotors and 4 piston calipers. check out there site. www.sevensonly.com

 

there's no pricing.

anyone know what they sell for?

 

I beleive they wanted $1200?

 

it was just under 2k. comes with mounting brackets, rotors, calipers, pads, etc. for all four wheels.

 

So no one here has tried the FD conversion themselves? I wonder how hard it really is to do. Or if it's worth the 2G for the ready made stuff.

 

Wow! How much power do you have? That is a lot of brake! I personnly feel that slotted rotors, SS lines and really good pads are as much as you need........till you bolt on the turbo anyway...

 

In the case of my car a lot of work was involved simply to get the stock bolt pattern (the one you can't get wheels for). Also at the rear, where the '85 brakes are re-drilled for early style bolt pattern. In front this was done aswell, but with the rotor. If I ever need to get new rotors, I'll have some expensive custom work to get done...

 

Anyone ever seen a FD in a junk yard? Every try to buy the front brake setup off one, probally gonna run ya $400... If you can find them...

 

damn 2k for a brake setup,

im sure it would work great but still

Damn,

Jimmy, your 16s look great. ajc's old car looked good too but I actually prefer 16, as FB ride kind of high in the first place. 17s seem to make the car look lifted.

 

Cp Racing and I are going to be launching a new TII brake conversion for the 1st gen. It will be for sale MUCH SOONER than you think. (Like weeks away and it works AWSOME)

 

I think that the setup you described (also what I plan on using) would work fine even with a turbo setup. Mainly, just because you have a turbo doesnt mean your car is going to be any harder to stop. If your going 60 MPH and try to stop, its going to be the same whether you have a turbo or not, and if your talking about high speed driving, you should be on a track where you have enough room to not overload the brakes and have enough room to stop .

~T.J.

 

Hopefully youre not letting the cat out of the bag too soon so people arent going crazy waiting for it again .

~T.J.

 

To all - woops, I ment a FC to FB conversion not FD. FCs are getting to be dime a dozen now. People really only seem to want 1st and 3rd gens.

J-Oliver - Pricing estimates yet? Will we be waiting and crying about it like with the r & p conversion?

yayarx-7 - It's not about stopping anymore. It's about filling in the void behind narrow five spoke rims. It's just for looks. My 7 already stops better than any car I have owned. And ya, maybe a turbo will be in the works some day.

 

As Deezletrane/Beezlebub would say....."looooolllll....this guy is too much! you're killing me!" Let's call this promo tease lead time at 8 months right now, if not a year....

 

I have a question, are there any bigger brakes that we can go to over stock and still run 13 inch wheels? I want to stay with 13's because there is a good assortment of slicks and tires avaliable for them, and all the new bigger rims IMO are too ricey. I like old school 13inch jap rims.

CJG