New brakes...

New brake discs and pads arrived Thursday.

Set of front 2 piece grooved brake disks / ally bells off Godspeed. Over 2kg ligher than std disks apparently.
And the EBC Bluestuff NDX ( track / race pad? ) which are meant to have great cold bite and good anti fade on hard use.

May get pics up.

Fit them tomorrow, too cold and wet today!

i just fitted a set of the same discs with some of his kevlar pads - will see how they fair, if not will go for some pagid rs

Fitted the new 2 piece discs - alloy bells bolted to steel discs.

No problem.

Fitted the Bluestuff NDX pads - bit of a tight fit as they have an anti rattle pad on the back, then Subaru fit 2 metal shims to the back of the pad, but finally got the pistons back into the caliper ( Easy way - crack the bleed nipple using 1mm spanner and fit hose to bleed nipple from a non return one man bleed kit to a bottle! And push with end of spanner while wedging the other pistons ).

Quick run around the block, and after 3 or 4 presses the brakes were quite reasonable, and after 5 miles not at all bad.
The instructions say bed the NDX in for 300 miles normal driving, then do 5-6 hard stops with cooling time between stops with normal driving and they are set.


Had a few pics of the discs / pads, before and after, but the camera went wonky I think - gave me 4 copies of each pic and when I deleted 3 of each the remaining poic was of something else!

So no pics. Shame.

These EBC Bluestuff NDX pads are quite good so far.

Done about 60 miles on them, 10 miles in town, 40 miles dual carriage ways.

Cold bite is good, better than the OEM Brembo pads I think, and when a little warm gets even better.

Bedding in instructions say to do this for 300 miles then 5 ish hard stops and then they are conditioned, de-gassed and bedded in.


So will test them on hard braking in a week or two and let you know.

sick of trying euro car parts to get discs keep saying none in stock or will cross ref part number to make surer they have right ones & never get back to me , i hate that kind or service

ive rang ian at godspeed he says cab do me there grooved discs with either kelvar pads at £150 or £250 with ndx blue stuff pads

one way or the other i will b ordering discs & pads tomorrow so they t bedded in as car due 1st mot end of this month

I had Ian G's brakes on my Classic about 9 years ago. Good value for money product and a great chap to deal with.
Being lazy, I drove to Wales and he fitted them.

i seams to be good to deal with

i sent him pm regarding discs etc & had reply with in 5mins with prices & that was last nite , seams like alot of good reviews of him & products on scoobynet