83starpower Posted July 11, 2002 Report Share Posted July 11, 2002 Ok, putting better brakes on a starquest is harder than i thought it would be >. Scratch the mercedes calipers idea, its soooo close to working, but not close enough. The IMSA starion has Willwood 4 piston calipers on all four corners. Ok, so theres generally two types of parking brakes, rotors with minature drums inside of them, for instance mercedes uses these, and calipers that turn when the parking brake is pulled, like starquests.So how did they manage doing it on the IMSA starion? Does anyone know if willwood makes a kit for starquests. Theres got to a way for a reasonable amount of money to do this. taKI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjf Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 These are the calipers that Oscar is basing the "Big Brakes" GP on. No one that we know of has a kit for Starions, that is why Oscar has been working with an engineering firm to produce an adapter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conquest351 Posted July 12, 2002 Report Share Posted July 12, 2002 Yeah I called Willwood, Baer, Brembo, and a bunch of the Import brake kit guys and noone had anything for the Starquests. I found one place though that said they would do a custom kit using Brembo calipers for $3500 and it would take them 6-8 weeks to do it. I was like "Hhhmmm, let me think-NO!" LOL Let me know when that one dude had the big brake kit done and ready to sell. I needs one bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Posted July 13, 2002 Report Share Posted July 13, 2002 Who did you cantact for the custom brembo kit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conquest351 Posted July 13, 2002 Report Share Posted July 13, 2002 Some dude in Florida called some other place and they said they could do it. The price is what threw me off. I can't really remember the name of the place. IM me and I'll try to figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron_F. Posted July 16, 2002 Report Share Posted July 16, 2002 Not sure what fab shops you guys are dealing with but it sounds more like they just don't want to do it. They give you a way high price and figure you'll never go for it and if you do then it maybe worth it. Better / bigger brakes are not hard for this car. If I had the cash right now the kits would be available. the biggest deal is fitting larger rotors and those 4 piston Wilwoods in the stock front wheels. Right now the biggest problem with the stock brakes is clamping force and brake fade. One simple solution is to replace your pads with a race or true HP street compound. These pads are about $130 but they will make you a believer and you only need the fronts. They require half the peddle effort and have twice the coefficient of friction and can handle heat up into the 1200 deg range, that's nearly twice what your running now. This translates into much reduced brake fade (you will not fade these on the street). However the race pads only last about 5K miles or so on the street ( I got 2 events and 4K on mine). Going back to AutoZone pads is like going back to drums. I'm currently running the drums... I have everything ready to produce the 13" setup (17" wheels) but the cash for the parts. My friend just picked up a mill and I have the drafts for the brackets so it's getting closer for me. As soon as my RM sells we'll see. Another option as some of you have looked at is to just replace the calipers and use the stock rotors. This would allow you to use a larger pad and multi piston caliper, hopefully with a pad that is supported by the motorsports industry. All this takes time and money. You just have to decide what it's worth to you and how much brake do you truly need, what's your driving style, are you racing or just want some whoa when you need it. Larger rotors sometimes are not worth the expense even though they look cool, I've seen many cars with great brakes running stock rotors with race pads and HP fluid. Just some things to think about. Later Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83starpower Posted July 18, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2002 I think the stock rotors provide plenty friction surface. They are not that wide, but they are plenty thick. I plan on making my starion a full out race car(only race it on the track), so i think having better brakes is a must. Even if there was only a kit for the front, that would be fine, seeing as 75% of braking action occurs in the front anyways. I want to keep the stock rims, so changing the rotors for larger ones would not be an option for me. taki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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