I was reading with interest then laughed and nearly dropped my phone

Will send your wife the bill

 

Bumping an old thread here but did you ever hear more about this?

After cracking another front disc at the weekend (just two track outings on these) a BBK is a the top of my shopping list! I'm going for the Reyland race kit for the front but like yourself want to keep it balanced. I was almost set on the Hispec set up for the rear but the reviews of it and specifically the handbrake sound poor so an RX8 or similar kit may still be a good option...

If anyone has positive reviews of the Hispec rear kit it would be good to hear!

 

Interestingly I remembered about this thread the other day and thought I should update it!

I ended up going with the SakeBomb kit because Reilly were taking too long, so I've no idea I'm afraid!

 

Probably about time I updated this thread! I fitted the Reyland front kit with the CP9200 caliper, and the SakeBomb RX8 rear conversion.

Everything fitted very nicely, the SakeBomb kit makes good use of the existing handbrake cables, which JUST have enough length in them.

At first the pedal felt a little long (more dead travel due to the larger pistons all round) and a little soft. After re-cleaning all the mating surfaces and refitting the brackets (and precisely measuring the alignment with the rotors), and a little bit of bedding in, it feels decent now. I also adjusted the pedal slightly, to remove some of the dead travel (leaving just enough slack to not put any pressure on the master cylinder).

With the extra power, the brakes do feel a little more sensitive to pedal pressure, as expected, but certainly not as bad as some over-servoed modern cars!

I haven't tried it on track yet, but that will be the main test. I didn't want more power, just consistent pedal feel (the OEM single piston calipers wore pads & and discs unevenly so the pedal feel became soft after a few laps).

But so far, so good!

 

One thing I forgot to mention is the pads. Obviously there aren't that many sets of pads which fit both calipers AND are road and track suitable AND have a coefficient of friction which doesn't bump up the 'grabbiness'. I've currently got the DS2500s which came with the front calipers, and a set of Yellowstuff in the rears. They're closely matched on coeff of friction, and fine for the road (although they needed some decent temperature to bed in properly). But I've been hunting around for some alternatives which don't have high mu (coefficient of friction).

I fancy the EBC Bluestuff low friction version, but can't get them for both calipers. It would also be nice to have slightly higher friction pads in the rear, as the balance has already been shifted to the front, and the S2000 is fairly front biased anyway.

Suggestions welcome.

 

Thanks for the update. Did you go with the regular sakebomb kit or the race one with the larger discs?

Like yourself I would like to keep the balance the same or shift it a bit more rearward so ideally would go bigger than 300mm on the rear. Also not keen on keeping the oem rear caliper or going to another sliding one as that probably doesn't help feel and tapers the pads but maybe the rx8 caliper using larger pads isn't as bad? If the hispec kit used discs larger than 300mm I would go for it and put up with the handbrake being crap! Need to check the piston size that kit comes with and see if there's options to adjust bias that way I think.

Do pbs do pads to suit the new setup? I've got on well with the prorace and they would do dual duties, now on the procomp but wouldn't use them for the road...horrific squeal when taking it easy.