KAD 6 pots
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Any of you guys run 6 pots on a 7.9" disc..

Just want to know everyones opinions, hopefully compared to an S setup....

Cheers

I've got them on 8.4's and there excelent, its the same caliper that fits the 7.9's so there should be little difference.

dont forget that there are no dust seals with those.

dont see the point, had a few niggles with my brakes but my minispares 4 pots stop on a penny

wolfie have you got a servo?
i find my minispares 4pots to be good but the pedals only good (not spongy) once there warmed up!

as for 6pots im sure they dont have dust seals and are for race/track work only, unless you dont mind cleaning them ever other week!
4pots should be up to the job i would say.

cheers
josh

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Minispares 4 pots here too, good enough for baldwin so good enough for me lol, oh and half the price :)

no servo but works spot on now

what do you know, i'm also running minispare alloy 4 pots, that must tell you something

minispares 4 pots stop my 200+ bhp mini fine!! Also most miglias run 4 pots too. Although most miglias run the kad 4 pots, I know for a fact that kad four pots and minispares 4 pots use metro turbo piston seal kits, there for the pistons are the same sizes there for, same performance (apart from unsprung weight)

Team Racing

And there Jimster puts it perfectly.

Do you really need anything better than Mety 4 pots for a normal road driven car? Probably not.

For a track based car where your likely to get the most from the car and notice the difference then anything you can do to get a reduction in un-sprung weight will pay off.

Mini spares 4 pots are great calipers and in my experience are more than up to the job.

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got minispares 4 pots cant fault them!

Ive had 3 sets of them and i CAN fault them

im currently running a cooper s set up and that is doing fine

really Nic, please explain mate.

Going to order another set soon unless you put me off!

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-the first set were porous
-the second set were the first of the billet ones and had dodgy nipples (hoho)
-and i just couldnt get the last set to work at all (the previous 2 had)

I seem to be the only person in the world to have had problems with these. But mini spares took months each time to get another pair to me, i was so pissed off with the 3rd pair that i gave them away

trust u nic to get a dodgy niple!!! lol

i did have problems with mine at first as they were a pig to get the air out of them!!
mine have a shit pedal feel when they are cold or on a cold day ( i guess i dont get them as warm on a cold day? who knows! lol)
im thinking about fitting a remote servo in the inner wing or somthing, but thats going off topic a bit! lol
i would think the minispares ones are lighter than metty 4 pots arnt they?

cheers
josh

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yes severely lighter

Josh ..... they can be a pig to bleed (first time only in my experience) but I tend to take a stubourn caliper off and lift it as high as possible to bleed it .. normally helps.

The braking when cold issue is probalby down to pads (or vented discs in a light car that can't put the energy in to warm them). If your using Mintex pads I;d say that is why ..... never got on with those, try Ferrodo normal road pads for a road car and Ferrodo fast road pads for a quick car. EBC pads are good if you get the right ones for your application (some cars greens work, oters they don't).

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Nic in fairness my last set were a pita to get working, turned out to be an iffy seal from new. Got a rebuild kit (for free in 3 days from MS Brum) and never had a problem again.

It's one of those things, I normally rate Willwood calipers but a set my friend has just had were only fit for scrap (porous) but Rally Design sent another set next day. Some people are not lucky people, I know I am not!!!!!

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

Ive had 2 sets of the old cast ones, (one of them used to be Jims iirc?) and found them to be spot on, they might not look flash, but they work great and weight naff all compared to the std iron 4 pots

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

yea I think you did buy my old set,

Team Racing

non vented discs and EBC black stuff pads on mine, green were a big no no on me wee 998! lol used to shit me self coming off the motoway to a rondabout!

when its turboed im tempeted to buy the vented disc conversion and get some fast road ferrodo pads. but only time will tell if i need them or not!!

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Rodgers right about the Mintex 1144s, sometimes if they're really cold you notice it. I can't see why you have a spongy pedal only when cold though. When pads are out of their heat range (be it too hot or too cold) the pedal feels fine there's just no brakes. Maybe it's after you've pumped the pedal a bit it firms up.

maybe your right jay, if thats the case there must be some air left in the buggers??
if thats the case they are even worse then i thought to begin with to bleed!!! lol

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