Oh haiii

Sexy looking headlights ya got there bud!

Keep bleeding. Honestly, I'd pick up a metric f*ckton of generic DOT4 fluid and bleed until the pedal gets stiff. I still highly doubt its your MC especially if you are seeing bubbles still. Then when its good flush with your fancy Redline

 

I've done the ole pedal pump on my car on more than a few occasions. No adverse effects. Keep bleeding.

 

my car's definitely sat for longer periods of time though - I wouldn't be surprised if the bleed in 2013 was the first it's ever gotten. i'll keep bleeding. bled yesterday, felt the same, will bleed again after this weekend.

 

Dats what I be sayin...

Also, are you only bleeding with the Motive?

I like my Motive for moving a lot of fluid but nothing beats the 2 man method (or in your case get the GF in the driver seat).

I know Sean likes the vacuum bleeders but someone doesn't even own a compressor

Ask Sam the last time hes done a boost leak test

 

how's pumping it any different from the power bleeder? Two bleeds ago though, I did do the 2 man method.

I do BLT's all the time. They are delicious

 

I bought my car in 2013 with 11k miles on it. It's an 05 that the guy bough in November of 2004...lol. My car sat A LOT before I bought it.

 

ah gotcha. I'm not sure but I don't want to risk anything with the track day coming ahead. I've bled nearly half a dozen times now and it doesn't seem to make much difference to the pedal feel. I've got a new brake MC, going to install and bleed and bleed and see how the brakes feel after that.

a couple of events from this past weekend. the car feels great - no more biting looseness where I feel like I'm going to lose it anymore! car is handling all elements, slaloms, offsets, very well. If I man handle it, the car pitches around with 10+ degrees of yaw but doesn't spin. Not fast, but sure is fun, and surprising to passengers. Car is best when I drive it clean though.

Need to work on my line. I'm pretty close in the Mini but am blowing out distance in the Evo. Mostly because I'm going too fast. The car accelerates so much better than the Mini that I have time to get over in the Mini but I don't in the Evo. Work in progress though, there's a lot more in the car that I'm not extracting.

Sat (painful start):

Sun (smudged the camera )

 

racing brake calipers installed! with stainless steel vented pistons & high temp seals:

 

I love the look of a freshly rebuilt Brembo! Excellent work!

-pal215

 

not my work, snagged a rebuild from racing brake! but yea they look great and pretty much everything but the kitchen sink has been replaced in my braking system so i'm hoping this ends the brakes saga with this car. i just want to get them back to how they felt before the track day!

 

Wow. They painted over the stainless wear plate that the leading and trailing end of the pad backing plate bumps up against. Its removable. Would have been so easy to remove for paint...

 

ah? not sure what their process is. FYI it's powdercoat. They look great though. hoping it holds up, along with the pistons and seals. I tried to make certain not to get any on the dust boots. I may have had a little on my glove when I touched it lol but I was sure to wipe them down best I could.

 

I would remove everything, remove that wear plate, and get it stripped. The pad will dig into the powder coat, and it may cause the pad to hang up and drag..

 

ahh gotcha. hope not - I've go the titanium shim between the pad and the caliper, and some high temp grease between the shim and the caliper as well.

 

The Ti shim does nothing for that. Those were plates are for the pad moving fore/aft with braking force. The shime is there because the pad backing plate would tear the caliper up in short order if it wasn't there. The wear plate should be bare/clean stainless steel so the backin plate freely slides on it. I poorly circled what I'm talking about...