this is what i have for brakes:
Axxis ultimate pads
Brembo blank oem replacement rotors
stock lines and Honda brake fluid
the calipers are painted black w/ high temp engine paint (sum where around 500 to 1000 degrees F, can't really remember it was a long time ago)

all these things were installed in dec of 2003.
i have had no problems w/ any thing, till (prob around april) when i smelt something. i looked at my rear left(driver’s side) brake and saw that the caliper paint had bubbled a lil...i ignored it and it never happened again, till now.

i noticed the same smell a couple of days ago, i didn't have any time so i just was gona watch it and when i had time take it apart and check that **** out.
this week it hasn't got hot enough to bubble again, but it is def way hotter then any of the other brakes(the caliper and the rotor).

so i'm thinkin that it might be that it's sticking and the pad is just rubbing against the rotor all the time, causing the brake to become very hot....
but if that was happening wouldn't the car sway/move/pull to one side a lil bit? my car goes perfectly strait, when i let go of the steering wheel.

so maybe the caliper has shitted out and needs to be rebuilt or replaced...that sux


so tonight i got sum time, i pulled it in the garage and i'm gona wait a lil while so it can cool then take the caliper off and check it out.

any thing i should look for/do specifically?
any suggestions or info for me?
i do have a helms for my car...

 

well i checked it all out...i didn't take the caliper completely apart(like take the piston out or any thin).

the piston seemed to turn perfectly and smoothly, the pads were fine.
i just cleaned it up a lil and put sum grease on the parts that use grease and stuff...

i did notice that the smell was coming directly from the piston...maybe that's just fucked up some how

oh well, i'll see how it goes...i got auto-x this sunday, hopefully it doesn't catch on fire

 

With rear brakes I would always suspect a sticky e-brake cable. I had an old prelude who's cable would stick a bit, I just stopped using the e-brake and it was fine

But you could probably check to see if it's sticky and lube it. You can probably see if it retracts well from inside the car or jack it up and pull up/release and see if the wheel is hard to turn. Something like that, be creative, but I bet that's it.

-Chris
1998 Integra Type R #1085

 

oh yea i forgot about the parking brake
i'm gona check out the parking brake cable and adjust it and **** tonight after i get home from work

 

****....
it's not the parking brake, the piston is sticking, it doesn't matter if pull the parking brake up and release it or push the brake pedal and release it; the piston doesn't fully go back in all the way so the pads still drag on the rotor.

i'm gona need to rebuild them like next month, or wait till i upgrade the front brakes and do a rear brake upgrade too....

 

well i temp fixed it last night, cus it wasn't over heating at all today(and i auto-xed it all day long, then drove it home)