Friday 29 March 2013

Slotted brakes for the KE35!

For a long time, i've been having so much braking problems because the brake rotors that I've been using are the old used AE86 standard brake rotors, which were passed its life. So I bought these endurance slotted front and rear rotors from Race Brakes, New Zealand a few months ago and nearly forgot about it. So it finally it arrived in the mail and I got them fixed up! The brakes on the car even with the standard road pads have improved incredibly(pedal firmness, response of the brakes, and most importantly the brake bite is much more).

The fronts were a bit tricky to install. From the old standard rotors, the off set piece has to be reused and bolted on the new rotors so don't throw away your old rotors before you install the new ones! Whereas the rear solid slotted rotors were a direct fit.

So when buying the rotors, what information that the shop would need are the diameter of the brake rotors you require, its PCD, the thickness of the brake rotors and the thickness of the off set piece. The more information the better.
The top ventilated slotted brake rotors are the fronts and the bottom solid slotted rotors are the rears. 

Original Japanese Watanabes from Klang

Hey all, 

Before this I used these 15inch Taiwanese Works Equip look a like rims that came with my Toyota Corolla KE-35 Hardtop Coupe, till everyone said that it looks horrible with the car and the 15inch were too wide until they were touching the body after a certain steering angle. So I decided to go see my old friend at Klang, Kazuto Garage where I bought my first Watanabe rims for my Toyota Sports 800. So happened that he has a set of Matt Black 14inch Watanabe rims with the standard off set and 6.5J. He quoted me RM2800 for a used set inclusive of touching up and I've never regretted since! Ever since i've switched the rims, the tires don't touch the car's body anymore and the back tends to kick out that slight which is what I've been wanting! 



Some specs of the rims: 

Diameter: 14inch
PCD: 114.3
Width: 6.5J 
Off-Set: Standard