hands down one of the best mod i've done to the Evo. wish i would have done it earlier. Brakes feels stronger, less pedal pressure to engage abs. and pads last longer and dust boots last longer.

 

Nice. I will definitely be doing that before dumping more money into my 8/9 brake setup.

 

it's fairly a cheap bbk setup. only thing is it't not reversible if you want to go back to evo 9 calipers. i was thinking machining some sleeves for the mounting hole if i want to put the evo 9 calipers back on for 17" winter wheels for ice racing. which wouldn't be hard to machine. but i decided to just get stock evo x 18" wheels to use for ice racing. also you still have to use the expensive stock size pads. most after market bbk use cheaper pad size. and you do have the advantage of stock evo x rotor option. should be pretty cheap from rock auto for one piece rotors. the cheapest aftermarket MR rotor rings i've found are $400 for a set of two.

 

Wish I had known about this before I upgraded the OE brake system

But when the time is right to rebuild, I'll prob go this route. There was a guy on FB selling front EvoX calipers for 400 bucks but they sold really fast...

 

got my calipers on ebay, practically new for $450. make sure they come with bolts so you dont have to source them later.

 

took the lower aero off, put the bilstein back on and did some ice racing over the weekend with AMEC at Lake Algonquin, Wells NY

 

Looks like a lot of fun.

 

if you're not too far from Wells, Albany and have snow tires, you should come out and try it. cheap and fun.

 

How the heck are you racing on ice ?sounds like fun, just joining on the thread, nice pic of the car as well !!

 

Looks like you need studded tires...lol

 

yeah, i'm running in the non studded class. they combine the studded and no studded class in the same race. it's only my second ice race every but i was told that conditions was as bad as it can get since there was no snow, just smooth ice. the snow you see is really just ice chunks from the big studded class. it doenst pack down and you grip like real snow.

 

Aerial view of the rack.

 

 

That looks like a lot of fun!! Nice work

 

Pedestrian protection at it's finest
Looks good tho