brake upgrade pedal feel

[morgan]

Okay so we all know the stock glanza brakes are rubbish all round so I'm upgrading to 260mm twin pots.

Will doing this also improve brake feel as when I press the pedal now it has a lot of travel in it before it does anything.

Going to be bleeding the full system as well and adjust the pedal as best I can so I hope it will feel like a more modern car.

What are your experience with getting bigger brakes.

Thanks

[richardc9052]

Im sure there is a bigger brake booster you can fit from another toyota from the same era that would help with that but with twinpots it wont feel any different although you will need to apply less pressure to achieve the same results with the standard brakes.

[morgan]

Okay so should make a small difference, maybe some braided lines could help as well

[RobSR]

Okay so we all know the stock glanza brakes are rubbish all round so I'm upgrading to 260mm twin pots.

Will doing this also improve brake feel as when I press the pedal now it has a lot of travel in it before it does anything.

Going to be bleeding the full system as well and adjust the pedal as best I can so I hope it will feel like a more modern car.

What are your experience with getting bigger brakes.

Thanks

You've obviously got air in the system somewhere if you have a long pedal. Standard brakes are fine with a decent pad / disk and fluid combo. At the end of the day the car weighs nothing so they never need crazy sized brakes.

You have to be careful when fitting larger piston calipers / extra piston calipers, they will have a higher CC requiring more brake fluid meaning your pedal could get longer again.

[morgan]

Yes was hoping that a full bleed of the system would do a lot, but didn't know if that was the only problem and didn't want to make it worse with bigger brakes

[Starlet__SR]

As above. Air in the system wont help. But fitting bigger calipers will ideally need a bigger MC to drive the calipers. I'm sure one from a Celica, corolla or something can be made to fit.

[morgan]

Haven't really seen people who put in twin pots also upgrade the master but will look in to it, thanks guys

[5e colin]

i never changed the master when i fitted my twins stop way harder now pedal feels same to me

[Ollieh17]

Its to do with the surface area of the pistons. Twinpots obviously have smaller pistons and the surface area i imagine works out roughly the same as the standard brakes

[Starlet__SR]

Some cars don't tend to suffer as much as others. I'm mainly talking about a proper BBK.

[morgan]

Update for you all

I have now changed over to twin pots 260mm and the car feels like a madden day car.

No long peddle travel

Hope this helps others