who knows about this breaks what can u guys tell me about them im thinking of buying a set but i need ur guy's feed back about them...thanks

D2-BBKF6286 6 Piston Front Kit 286MM DISK $1400

 

Looks good... But for $1400, i'd buy spoon calipers!

 

having driven with spoon calipers and now i have a D2 6 piston setup. i am confident in saying that the stoping power of the d2 is alot better.

 

those look sick

 

So you going to get a set for your Type-R *and* your S2000?

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-s2000-5/d2-calipers-what-do-u-think-2439497/

 

and his EF

 

are they going to leak like the shocks? they do look nice tho

 

^ So, have you seen a set of shocks that leak?

Funny, we run D2 coilovers on most of our race cars, and we've yet to have a problem. Mine have been through a few track days, with thousands and thousands of miles of shitty Wilmington road daily driving, and they've yet to have an issue.

I think everyone would be shocked if they knew how many companies use the same components as D2.

For the money, they're tough to beat. Of course, if you have $4,000 to spend, get some Motons. If you have $2,000 to spend, get some KWs. If you have under $1,000 to spend, and need something for track/street usage on a budget, get some D2s (i.e. I sell the Type-R specific ones for $812 with custom spring rates).

Anyway, for the D2 brakes, they're not bad. I haven't seen anyone run them on the track yet, so I can't speak for their quality after multiple events, but I know they do fine on the street. What I don't like about them, is the piston coverage area doesn't vary one bit from 4 piston, all the way up to 12 piston. We measued each one, all the way up to the 12 piston, and they all measure the EXACT same coverage. I see no purpose in increasing number of pistons, without increasing piston coverage area... It's just more parts moving, which equals more parts that could fail.

If you're seriously interested (Which it doesn't appear you are, the way you're posting all around about these in various sections), I can do a LOT better than $1,400 on that set.

For the money, I'd get some Wilwoods, honestly.

 

run them in the winter up here in the northeast....salt and sand own them. I ran my Omni powers a few years ago, but I usually run my stock sussy in the winter.

 

<--- Lives in Wilmington, North Carolina. Hasn't had snow in 4 years, and it was .5".

 

The OP has 28 posts and the last 8 are all the same.....in different forums

https://honda-tech.com/search.php?do...&starteronly=1

 

what size wheel do you have to run with these? 17's? or can you squeeze them under some 16's with some math?

 

^ They can fit under 16s with at least a +45mm offset on Type-Rs.

 

At one of the local shops that i go to, i've seen 3 set of D2 coilovers leak.

2 of the sets came off RSX's. 1 of the RSX was slammed to the ground so i don't really blame the coilovers for puking out after 6months, the other RSX was only moderately lowered (about 2.5 finger gap all around) and only street driven as well but had 3 of the shocks puking after 8months of daily driving.

the last car i seen with them was an EG that auto-x'd about once a month. only the rear shocks were gone on that car and this happened after 11months.

the shop gave up on selling D2 after that unless a customer wanted to special order them in. the shop warrantied the blown shocks, but the shop owner wasn't very happy with D2 in terms of sending out replacements (came out of the shops own inventory to keep the customer happy).

I agree with you though, that it's tough to beat the price of these coilovers. And you're rite that i'm sure they're from the same factory as many other taiwan made coilovers, however, i don't see too many skunk2, omni, k-sports, attack, etc...blowing as many as D2.

who knows, it could just be a bad batch that came from D2 at the time.

 

^ What year/month was this? There was a bad batch that came out years back, and I won't deny the problems that took place with that batch. The newer revised designed that was released after that batch, have been perfectly fine.

One of our employees has a set of 'old' D2s on his S14 daily driver of 4 years, and he had the shock issue. Replaced the shocks with the newer style ones for free, and they've been fine.

I get replacement shocks for these things incredibly cheap, so I'm not too worried about it even if they do start leaking.

 

if the height is adjusted incorrectly sure they will blow. my room mate blew one of his k sports by lowering the spring perch instead of the actual shock

 

this was at least 1.5 years ago..maybe even 2 years now? the shop stopped carrying them about a year ago so i haven't heard much about D2 products after that.

csbucky - i don't think that lowering the spring perch itself should cause a shock to fail prematurely. if anything you'd actually be using the full travel of the shock (so long as you don't bottom out due to soft spring rates) and preloading the spring too much or not enough if you only use the body to lower the car. hope that makes sense

 

Spoon calipers are a better option IMHO.
You have to look at the cost of replacing the rotors too. By looking at the pic, D2 uses floating rotors and they cost a lot to replace. We all know that rotors are wear item and you can't really complain $100 a set of Brembo blanks or $50 a set of Autozone that directly replaces the stock unit.

Stopping power? Even stock calipers offer enough stopping power -- no problem locking wheels mounted with R-comp. More pistons mean better modulation. "Stopping power" is meaningless when you can easily exceed the tire limit even with the stock system.

 

You mean other low-budget suspension companies like Megan, Dropzone, Skunk2, Ebay no-names, etc? Yes, those taiwanese components are quality parts...

 

To me, trust is the big issue here. If I blow a shock, whatever, I can keep driving. If I blow a brake caliper, I'm plowing into the nearest telephone pole (potentially ). Is that "risk" worth it when there are plenty of other proven parts available that will guaranteed NOT fail? D2 is a low-budget company. By definition, that brings compromise to design and manufacturing of their parts, which in turn makes me skeptical.

Just like JICs on Subarus ...except somehow they cost a lot more...

 

just get legend 2-piston calipers and call it a day.

 

Agreed. Too bad the JDM show ****** have pushed the prices up so much. If I could pick up a used set for $500 or so, I'd be all over them.

Never said they were quality, I said they were good bang-for-the-buck.

 

they look like rebadged ksports...
i like my spooms better...plus i dunt like fuschia

 

nice!! get emm!

 

There's no 'rebadging' involved... They simply all use the same components.