Not sure if this is the right forum to place this in but i figured suspension and brakes go hand and hand.

I just finished installing a set of KVR calipers today on my EK....I must say I am very happy with the outcome! The car stops amazing. It is a big difference, i thought a caliper wouldn't make that much of a diff but i was wrong.

Things i found during the install: the rotors were to thick. well one was fine but one was too thick and didn't allow the caliper to go on, these are new brembo rotors also. they are stock brembo replacement for gsr. what i did was i machined some of the rotors, both the same amount, but very little....worked well.

also the calipers needed about 1/8th of an inch of shimms, which i had cnc'd out of aluminum for me to fit right.....amazing other then that!

Anyone else running these???

 

You shouldn't have had to machine the new rotors to fit, how many thousands did you have to take off? What pads did you use? And you are 100% positive that you pushed the pistons in all the way?

As I can remember one of the first times I did a brake job with after market pads and rotors I thought I'd been given the wrong pads but I'd forgotten to crank down the pistons all the way as they'd gotten very stiff towards the end of their travel.

 

Yes the pistons were all the way in, and the pads are the new ones that came with the kvr calipers.

I machined very little.....very little

Just to make them fit smooth and free....once bled there were fine with the rotors and all....i am a mechanic so it was pretty easy to do in house.

Sometimes the tolerances aren't exactly the same from rotor to rotor, and these were brembos

 

how much were the KVR calipers?

 

nice!

 

not sure since i didnt pay for them lol

i could find out what they go for....

see this set has been in our showroom for like 3 years, a customer ordered them and never showed up to pick them up. my boss ended up giving them to me for my birthday