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ABS.
Personally bunny i would put your money to better use than something that will not increase braking performance plus you can hardly see them behind your alloys.
Technical Brake conversions!
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Technical Brake conversions!
ABS.
Personally bunny i would put your money to better use than something that will not increase braking performance plus you can hardly see them behind your alloys.
It lists a different number again for the Antiskid version - 71714463
Apart from looking better once some better alloys have been sourced, and some 20v front brakes, it will bring all our Fiats to the same brake setup of 284mm front and 240mm rear disc. Then it will be worth having such tools as piston wind-in tools.
Plus I really hate working on drum brakes. They just wind me up.
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If you hover over the 009 on the part listing it'll give you a brief summary of what it is. My guess is ABS but without an ePER to hand i cant say exactly.
I doubt you'll ever need to change the drum brakes, it'll probably be sold by the time they do. Rear brakes hardly ever wear that quickly. My Bravo is 2 year old with genuine fiat pads on the front and still are only 3/4 full from fitting them. As mentioned 90% of the braking is done with the front.
Again fitting bigger discs to the front is not required and will give marginal gains, nobody will notice nor is it worth doing. Your better off giving the car more styling mods, i.e some sideskirts and spoiler, maybe a remap and a new clutch.
I think your spending alot of time and money on useless things that in the end wont benefit you at all. Again coupe alloys are 15's and will still cover most of your brakes.
Dont forget tinkering with the brakes means you need to declare everything to your insurance company which may increase your premium.
If you do go ahead with it, goodluck and be careful. If you have kids then make sure you are not playing with there lives changing the brakes around when they are perfectly safe and secure as they are. Same applies to anyone doing any brake conversions.
I doubt you'll ever need to change the drum brakes, it'll probably be sold by the time they do. Rear brakes hardly ever wear that quickly. My Bravo is 2 year old with genuine fiat pads on the front and still are only 3/4 full from fitting them. As mentioned 90% of the braking is done with the front.
Again fitting bigger discs to the front is not required and will give marginal gains, nobody will notice nor is it worth doing. Your better off giving the car more styling mods, i.e some sideskirts and spoiler, maybe a remap and a new clutch.
I think your spending alot of time and money on useless things that in the end wont benefit you at all. Again coupe alloys are 15's and will still cover most of your brakes.
Dont forget tinkering with the brakes means you need to declare everything to your insurance company which may increase your premium.
If you do go ahead with it, goodluck and be careful. If you have kids then make sure you are not playing with there lives changing the brakes around when they are perfectly safe and secure as they are. Same applies to anyone doing any brake conversions.
I do the brakes myself because they are my family in the car. I wouldn't trust a garage with anything to do with brakes. It's not their lives on the line if it goes wrong. Same goes for most of the physical parts such as suspension, steering, wheels.
A remap would be great, but if I'm taking the power to over that of my Sedicivalvole, then it only makes sence to have the same amount of braking - both front and rear. No need to go to coupe brembos - just the 20v n/a brakes will do. Then they can stay under sensible sized 15" wheels.
As for the ABS enquiry. There are options for ABS 20v and non ABS 20v which both have different numbers for the hub kit than the rest of the range. As you have managed with your original hubs then it doesn't look like there will be too much of an issue. As long as we get the correct spacers.
A remap would be great, but if I'm taking the power to over that of my Sedicivalvole, then it only makes sence to have the same amount of braking - both front and rear. No need to go to coupe brembos - just the 20v n/a brakes will do. Then they can stay under sensible sized 15" wheels.
As for the ABS enquiry. There are options for ABS 20v and non ABS 20v which both have different numbers for the hub kit than the rest of the range. As you have managed with your original hubs then it doesn't look like there will be too much of an issue. As long as we get the correct spacers.
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