Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

I received several questions through different channels such as email, SNS, etc regarding several brake pad and disc on the market and instead of writing answers to each owners, I decided to use my blog to share the common part of my answer.

As I don’t know the detail of your chassis setup and your driving style, I normally don’t post on these topics but wanted to share some of the data acquired through data logger equipped NSX driven by 10s ...

Tags: brake, disc, pad

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Brake , Personal View/Self Talk

I receive lots of email regarding NSX every day and quite often, the owners are asking similar question.
Instead of trying to find my previous answer to other owners and cutting & pasting them to create new reply, I will just post them on here so that I can refer it in the future.

Q: Without replacing the OEM 15/16 wheels, what can I do to improve the brake performance?

A: If we start discussing about the brake without understanding your current ...

Tags: brake, brake discussion, brake question, brake ref107

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Brake , Personal View/Self Talk

CCU back in place and carried out Self diag as well as Function & Operation check.
Really annoying noise from the aspirator fan at the cabin temperature sensor but didn’t want to deal with it after what I saw behind the aftermarket ICE head unit….



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Tags: base idle, brake, dressing, test driving

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , A/C CCU Board Service , Brake

Started to work on the brake system.

Although I placed the order to Goodridge well in advance and
should have received the custom made kit by last week,
it’s still not here.

Apparently, they ran out of a certain parts and had to
wait for it.
Hope I can get it by Wednesday as I want to get the
alignment done on Thursday.





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Tags: brake, brake caliper, brake calliper

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Brake

Now the fun begins with the brake.

This is the later spec NSX so these brake callipers meant to be in gold colour.


However, as same for most of other production cars, the factory electro plating finish won’t last for a long time and eventually, it will strip off.


The owner wanted to have it Polymer coated ...

Tags: brake, brake hose, brake line, caliper, calliper, cam cap, overhaul

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