My brakes need a lot of work. I thought this might be a good time to upgrade the brakes since I will be boosting in the near future. What do you guys use on your boosted setups? Or do you even get aftermarket parts for brakes? Let me know. Keep in mind this is for daily driving (with some pedal here and there) and an occasional track run so I won't need crazy good brakes for autox or anything. Just thought if I'm going to be upgrading might as well do it now while it needs it.

 

What pads and tires are you currently running? Those two can make a huge difference!!

 

depends on your power goals also. the JDM itr brakes will most likely be fine for what I can pick from your post

 

I just bought the car so I don't know what pads are on there yet but the tires are 195/55R15 FIERCE INSTINC VR. Don't know anything about tires but they seem really good to me. Then again it's only at 170hp as apposed to whatever it will be after I boost it. It's going to be DD so I would like tires that last long but still decent performance and good in the rain. These tires are excellent in the rain.

 

two choices. 23T calipers or wilwood. those are the 2 at least for being somewhat inexpensive

the 23T come on the early legend or ITR. you have to take the brackets to the machine shop and mill 1/8" off the mounting flange to make them sit center on the rotor but besides that it's a bolt on job. you then redrill mid 90s prelude vtec rotors and or itr rotors and you're good to go

pad wise you'll probably want to be somewhere around the stoptech street or hawk hp+ level. the stoptech streets are a really nice pad that slap the **** out of an HPS and have about 85% of the torque of an HP+ but cost less, dust less and don't squeal

wilwood kit is $500 and something and gives you even more caliper and a thicker rotor. do check to make sure what pads are available first if you go this route.

 

heres the thing with braking. you can only stop as fast as your tires can grip. even with stock brakes and ceramic pads, my wheels can full lock up with red hot rotors. i have dunlop dz 101s. they grip decent enough but i know theyre the limiting factor with braking. honestly i think a decent pad setup and brake ducting (properly to the center of the hub) will be more beneficial compared to an all out big brake upgrade. unless this is a track car with some noce sticky tires.


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I used to run Brembo cross-drilled and slotted front rotors, Brembo blanks in the rear, and Hawk HPS pads all around. It works just fine, but can be a little dusty

 

Mini cooper N/A rotors allow you to not redrill and are a direct fit. Stock ITR Calipers/brackets/pads. (the caliper/bracket/pad part numbers cross references with several other hondas. check rock auto) 11 inch brakes dirt cheap.

 

it's more fade resistance. if you push a stock gsr with stock brakes the brakes will be mushy and fading in roughly 1 minute of aggressive driving

 

+1



I have a set of 23Ts in the front with mini rotors/OEM Prelude pads and all EP3 setup on the rear of my Integra. Pedal feel is nice. Same travel, but slightly less effort required. I have no idea if fade is improved, I'm still letting them bed. This is a DD, so no race pads for me. If you opt for the mini cooper rotors, the pads will extend past the edge of the rotor, but it's less than a millimeter. I went with mini rotors because I may go to 5 lug in the future for better wheel selection and don't want to mill my brackets.

This upgrade fits inside the 15" OEM wheels. (barely)

Sorry no pics of rears caliper or rotor comparisons, I was pressed for time.








With 16" wheel

 

when you burn those pads up try the stoptech street performance pad next. i'm really impressed with these. no noise. little dust but they just put an hawk hps in the ground as far as bite and fade resistance. really nice street pad with none of the drawbacks of a more aggressive track pad

also cheap

 

Thanks for the heads up. I will keep them in mind.