For all intents and purposes this was a solid setup, but in my quest to shed as much weight as possible it just wasn’t going to cut it anymore.Īnyway, it’s very easy to remove calipers on Civics. This is the old setup I had on the Civic Legend single piston calipers, Project Mu HC+ pads, and blank rotors (the setup is for sale by the way).
#Apg brakes free#
For that reason, I’ll do my best to be concise in instruction for those that haven’t and our interested – so if I skip anything I apologize, but feel free to contact me with any questions you have, product or installation wise. I’m sure the majority of people reading this have swapped brake pads, rebuilt calipers, and replaced rotors at some point in time. I wasn’t going to get a better break in working conditions, so I figured I’d start disassembling my current brakes. The next day, a small bout of rain during the late afternoon brought a nice moment of reprieve from the horrendous heat wave we’ve had this week in California.
#Apg brakes install#
I thought I’d do an install post for both my benefit of documenting the comparison, and a little how-to if any enthusiasts out there have yet to tackle their brakes. We settled on the setup, and a few weeks later Howard was able to deliver them to the shop before he leaves back to Japan and Taiwan later this week.
I would be able to address the weight issue, and get a more even and consistent brake feel at the same time. Not to mention that it fits a 304mm rotor, which is just a tad larger than the 11.1″ rotors I had been using. Single piston Legend calipers are just over 14 pounds loaded – I’d be cutting that weight in half. After hearing that the smaller variation of their 6-pot caliper weighed in at just 7 pounds with pads, I was pretty sold. I explained to him that I wasn’t very disappointed in the way the OE Legend calipers worked for me (aside from them being single piston), noting that the massive weight was my main concern. We got together at my shop and discussed a few things in regards to braking. Long story short, I was able to meet with Howard, who runs marketing for APG, while he was here in the states for work. I eventually ended up contacting Matayoshi a couple months later to talk about his car, and ended up getting contact information for reps at APG.
When I got back home I looked into them a little more with little luck. I had ran into him at Suzuka and noticed that the calipers on his car were not among the commonly seen variety. I first learned of APG from Shinobu Matayoshi’s time attack FD. There is still much to do, and among them was to replace the overweight front calipers with a reliable, lightweight alternative – APG Performance answered that call. Getting the motor running properly was a huge milestone, but it far from marked the completion of the build. For whatever reason I had this idea in my head that the rest of the build would be smooth sailing after the new motor setup got tuned boy was I wrong. This past weekend I was able to knock out a lot of work on the car.
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