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Originally Posted by bobcowan
Just got my car back from the engine tuners. Drove it for the first time today, and it runs awesome.
But, the brakes are terrible! You need a lot of pedal pressure to slow the car down. and there's not much pedal movement at all.
The car is brand new, with power brakes. I did not opt for the Wilwood brakes.
I'm hoping that they just need to be bedded in properly. I hope.
Any thoughts?
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Yes, the brakes will be terrible if they haven't been bedded in!
I replaced the 9" Mustang II / Pinto front disc brakes with Wilwood 4 piston calipers and 11" rotors, and the rear drums with a GM single caliper set. When I first drove it down my street (at a very low speed) I thought I had NO brakes. Wow - just nothing there. Even with the power booster it took ridiculous pedal pressure to slow it down. I persevered, though, making repeated HARD applications and improvement was obvious and fairly quick. It was only after I took it out on a nearby secondary highway and went through the recommended routine to bed the brakes in that things really improved.
I followed a similar bedding procedure on my daily driver when I replaced the pads, and the same on my wife's daily driver when I replaced the pads and rotors - to the point where I had wisps of smoke coming out of the front wheel wells. Properly bedded pads and rotors work so much better it's scary. My DD went from good to incredible.
Wilwood's "Pad Bedding - Tech Tips":
https://www.wilwood.com/techtip/techpadbedtip
Wilwood Brake Pad And Rotor Bedding Steps:
http://www.wilwood.com/Pdf/Misc/Pad_...ding_Steps.pdf