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right, everything off the block and go from there. If I had a budget I'd much rather replace the liners that are shit to begin with but it is what it is.

Oh, god. Truer words never were posted.


Sure sounds like you need a bigger machine. My favorite rationalization is "I can buy it, use it, and then sell it and I'll be out less than if I paid a shop to do the work for me" - you're welcome to it if you like.

I honestly didn't have a lot of motivation today thinking about the liners and since the pedals here still laying on the bench I worked on that a little. I kept screwing up what lines I needed and they gave me a wrong one I didn't notice until I'd bent it, but 3 trips to the store later the rear has its 3 proportioning valves and a pressure transducer. Homely adding the transducer to the front tomorrow goes smoother.


The EMPI vales is the finest chinesium, heavier than the wilwood but still has a plastic adjusting knob and lettering the just wipes off

I finish up up the brake lines with the front transducer cut in and the lines es bled.



factory spec says 4" brake travel, 6.2" clutch travel, my setup is almost exactly reversed with 4" clutch and 6" on the brake, which moves about 2- 2.5" . No way to know how it feels now but mentally I believed I was feeling more flex in things making me sure the pressures are higher and it was totally worth the trouble

Still need to wire in the new sensors. I was also looking a brake pads and found myself a bit confused. All 4 caliper and rotors are the same ans Stoptech list the sames pads f/r (for the f430 my brakes are from), but EBC lists different part number f/r with the prices at $80/$120....but I have no idea what is different or why I should pay the extra $40 instead of ordering 2 front sets. The pads I have look fine but I was thinking with higher friction would further improve the pedal feel so I was eying the EBC bluestuff as they don't offer green which looks like slightly higher friction I think just fine for my indended use. More thinking to do on that....I just hate the idea of spending $40 and not knowing why.

I figured out the front/rear pad thing.  The site that had the best prices also had the numbers swapped so its the front pads that cost more and they cost more because they have wear sensors, which I don't have so I need to sets of the cheaper rear pads. .  Then I have (ferrari) brembo calipers and there are absolutely green stuff pads that will fit these calipers but they don't show up on an F430 search because they F430 goes very fast and will easily overheat the green stuff pads.....bu green stuff pads are available for 308s and what I happily was running before the brake upgrade.  So, green if I want the lowest pedal pressure around town, blue if I don't want to worry about overheat the brakes.

Is there a difference in the quantity or quality of the brake dust between the green & blue pads?

The chart says green scores 1 point higher on the"low dust" scale, 8 v 7 so better but nothing major.

Decided on blue because the description on the green pads said there are 3 versions they match to the application so no way to know if I'm ordering an appropriate pad. The blue is probably the safer choice anyway since a 308 isn't a light car and mine isn't low hp so avlittle more pedal pressure around town to get brakes safe at speed seems a good trade.

The shim quote came, $150 so I guess if that is what I do I'll be making them myself.

Tonight I started on the transducer wiring and got the ECU end done. I think I've said before I use shielded tefzel wire for the sensors which means I can use the cool little shield terminators that solder themselves to the shielding and also moisture seal the wire.




I started running the wires out to the sensors

then remembered they come out here......and that is a tomorrow problem I think.

With the cylinder shims, will you make a thicker shim and trim each cylinder to the proper protrusion?

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