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Post by comfysofa on Feb 20, 2019 12:22:45 GMT
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Post by trebor4460 on Feb 22, 2019 19:37:09 GMT
That caliper looks lush, a good upgrade look forward to see how you get on  |
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Post by comfysofa on Feb 23, 2019 10:32:54 GMT
Cheers Rob. TBH now ive found the hanger i know im going over the top on the rear caliper (being a nickel plated one) but there are plenty of cheap second hand oem p34's for under a ton so its a brilliant upgrade. Cheap, and effective.
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Post by keef666 on Feb 26, 2019 9:08:55 GMT
When i moved up to the Z1000 from my old ER5, which had the drum brake, when it come to riding in the wet, either wet damp roads or full on showers, i always felt more comfortable with the ER5's drum brake it was more forgiving and less likly to lock up on me,[ iwhen slow riding mostly use the rear brake ] where as the Z1000 disc brake i have had two locks up, one of them was a few years back when i just started riding the Z to work and some tosser in a car didn't want to stop when he came out of a side street, i paniced and put my foot on the rear brake thinking it will slow me down so when i hit him it won't hit as much, of course i wasn't riding the ER5 now so the bike didn't slow me up it was the disc braked Z and locked up, backend snaking around, thoughts going though my head this is it! thank god the car did brake at the last moment, i released my foot and the bike settled down went passed him and into a right hand bend, every since then i always think back to that moment, i have upgraded my front brakes to EBC wavy disc, and braided hose and man they stop you dead in yards in the wet with just two fingers on the lever. i remember going bit mad last summer winding the throttle on up to 65mph and then i had to brake hard, two fingers on lever pulled in slowly foot on back, the back end i could feel snaking as she gripped the road but the bike stopped in around sixty feet!
I wanted to do the same with the rear but think back to that morning when it locked up, and think it will do the same every time i touch it, so for that left it alone, just make sure i clean the piston out and check the pads every few weeks.
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Post by comfysofa on Feb 28, 2019 20:46:28 GMT
Well, ive got a p4 on the back of the RSV4 and the Hyper and both of them are way better.....
Payday: Hanger ordered.
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Post by comfysofa on Mar 3, 2019 9:52:31 GMT
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Post by keef666 on Mar 3, 2019 20:44:27 GMT
The cost of all that lot comes to $6,000 ?
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Post by comfysofa on Mar 7, 2019 20:57:53 GMT
Yeah - its not cheap...most of it is very blingy but the brake hanger and the torsion arm are what id like...purely cos the hanger holds a better model of caliper and the torsion bar looks way better than the pig iron oem one....i can feel a purchase coming on soon...
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Post by comfysofa on Mar 28, 2019 20:14:12 GMT
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Post by comfysofa on Mar 28, 2019 20:18:09 GMT
So, as you can see you can pretty well fit anything you want from a rear point of view....so you can go as cheap (second hand) or as expensive as you want to...awesome.!
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Post by keef666 on Mar 30, 2019 9:59:00 GMT
I take it the instruction's don't come in English then?
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Post by comfysofa on Mar 30, 2019 19:34:34 GMT
Meh - pretty self explanatory....more to demonstrate that you can bolt pretty well anything to it...
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Post by trebor4460 on Apr 6, 2019 8:07:59 GMT
good bit of kit look forward to seeing the caliper fitted  |
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Post by comfysofa on Apr 21, 2019 19:27:36 GMT
Ordered the caliper last week from a place called Omnia Racing over in Italy. I bought the zed's marchesinis from there a few years back. They did say end of april for delivery but i got an email on friday saying that it was already on the carriers and winging its way toward me...should get it this week coming at some point....pictures galore coming soon...!
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Post by trebor4460 on Apr 24, 2019 17:39:58 GMT
looking forward to seeing this fitted, |
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Post by comfysofa on Apr 25, 2019 9:41:21 GMT
Boom. Meaty. As. ..... You can't picture it but I'd say this caliper is 20 to 30% larger...  |
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Post by comfysofa on Apr 25, 2019 10:06:53 GMT
Other side.  |
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Post by comfysofa on Apr 27, 2019 19:40:10 GMT
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Post by comfysofa on Apr 28, 2019 8:09:12 GMT
Just to add - the only unknown in this is the master cylinder but im reasonably confident it'll be ok....the original single sided oem caliper while it only has the one piston without getting my caliper out to measure it appears to be about 20-30% larger that one side of the new caliper, but, as i say the brake pedal feels solid.
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Post by comfysofa on Apr 30, 2019 22:07:58 GMT
On its maiden voyage to work (only 10 miles) id say off the bat ive got 20 - 30% more braking than i did before without the pads bedding in....ive no idea what pads are in there out of the box but impresuming the cheapest the (Brembo) do - so on the whole im more than happy with the performance increase...on it tomorrow to work also...
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