My n/a super b3 build

[bhazard]

Re: My n/a super b3 build

I've driven both setups. The huge Capri brakes in the front and tiny festy drums in the rear make for a very unbalanced setup. The aspire setup is perfectly balanced and you get a parking brake setup that actually works.

Safety is key. Festy brakes are adequate in a stock festy. Doubling the power makes them a lot less adequate. Running larger wheels and tires makes them straight up weak.

[Prafeston]

... but who likes slowing downnthego:

Good point!

[drumnerd33]

See the thing is im not adding weight to my car, im using the stock engine and trying to reduce weight... so only thing i need better brakes for is having more power... but who likes slowing downnthego:

[drumnerd33]

Why? if my stock brakes were working so well the capri would be a huge improvement. If i do the aspire then i need new wheels and have to do the rear also... seems pointless to me, not saying its bad but if mine are working great why change it. Now if i could figure out a rear disc conversion i would do that to help in the rear plus do the capri but even that i may never do if everything is working great.

[bhazard]

Re: My n/a super b3 build

Do the aspire swap instead of Capri...trust me.

[drumnerd33]

Honestly i considered the capri upgrade but my stock brakes worked extrremely well... i never had an issue with stopping power, and i want to keep the bolt pattern i have, also when i was doing the brakes yesterday it looked like the rotors havent been changed in who knows how long they were out of spec for thickness and the wheel bearing grease was really crappy looking. so i washed eveything really good in the solvent tank and check the bearings and races and looked great so kept them but put new seals in and when i was doing the calipers the shafts with the rubber boot for the caliper to move were completely dry and almost couldnt get them to slide, had to use channel locks to get them out then regrease them real good so my brakes should work even better now. Another reason was before i started reading on this site alot and got the festy fever, i bought new rotors and semi metalic pads just never installed them and at this point couldnt return them so i decided to just stick with them for now and see how it does. There may still be a capri swap in my future considering i noticed my ball joint boot is all torn up and the control arm bushing is a little cracked so will need to replace the control arm anyway so may get aspires and do the swap but still watching and waiting for a capri to show up in the junk yard for the knuckles.

[Damkid]

My n/a super b3 build

Just curious but any reason for sticking with stock brakes?

[drumnerd33]

This came in last night.


so will be installing this today, along with removing the extra wiring and connectors on my firewall from the old sensors for stock carb.

[drumnerd33]

Well like i said this was a synthetic wheel bearing grease and it was black and kinda had a sparkle to it so i can see where you thought it looked like antisieze. My wheel bearing grease i have is the typical caramel looking but i forgot it at my apt and didnt want to go get it so my buddy brought his over.

[sketchman]

Weird. Looks just like the Anti-Seize I use. Just the screen, I guess.

[drumnerd33]

Lol nope cant say i did... but i forget my wheel bearing grease in my shed at my place(i dont have a garage im using my dads) so my buddy across the street got what he had and it was a nice synthetic wheel bearing grease...should add like 30 hp right?...lol

[sketchman]

Did you pack the bearings with anti-seize compound?

[drumnerd33]

Re: My n/a super b3 build

Yeah my uncle was helping me, I've never done that style before and he told me about the shim. It's really nice having him around because he teaches me a ton of stuff I never knew. And he teaches me the tricks they use at the shop to makes things easier:thumbup:

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[FestYboy]

Lucky!!!!! :p

[drumnerd33]

Actually i did look at that and they were both the same size.