How to Improve Brakes on 33HR?

[clays123]

How does one improve the braking on the 33HR without power brakes?

[erlihemi]

You have to play with cylinder volumes vs caliper piston volumes, pad surface, size, and rotor diameter. same as power just feels different on your foot and leg muscles.
Correct pad for use is a good place to start. What is your use? Street, auto cross, road race, etc.

[myjones]

pad surface, size, and rotor diameter. Correct pad for use is a good place to start. What is your use? Street, auto cross, road race, etc.

Exactly what I just told him on the other site, I went 13" all around and used EBC pads that bite well under 700*F cuz mines for the street.
I'll post the results when I finally get the car on the road.
Dale Berry
426 3G hemi

[clays123]

I am using it for street. It seem you have to try different things until you find the 'braking' you are looking for. Other than that you just have to go full power.

Clay

[Barrel]

I believe that in order to get the best performance you can from the standard FFR brake system you have to have the brake balance bar correctly set. I have also provided some "official" brake test results for my 33HR (with standard FFR set up) on the other forum.
Cheers,
Neil.

[clays123]

Thanks very much Neil, I read your post on the other forum.

Clay

[Jim Schenck]

If you have mustang rear discs and an older kit with a 3/4 bore rear master cylinder then I would start by swapping to a 5/8 bore. Also using a semi-race pad from Hawk, Stoptech, or Carbotech makes for lower pedal effort and still good street manners. The full race pads are even better but are very dusty and can be loud depending on the compound. Also doing a little set-up work in an empty parking lot to get the bias right is going to make the car stop much quicker for the same pedal effort as well.

[clays123]

If you have mustang rear discs and an older kit with a 3/4 bore rear master cylinder then I would start by swapping to a 5/8 bore. Also using a semi-race pad from Hawk, Stoptech, or Carbotech makes for lower pedal effort and still good street manners. The full race pads are even better but are very dusty and can be loud depending on the compound. Also doing a little set-up work in an empty parking lot to get the bias right is going to make the car stop much quicker for the same pedal effort as well.

Thanks very much Jim, very good advise. I will be trying all this and see what result before going full power.

Clay