Chances are your brakes haven't been touched for years, it's just the way it goes with 300s. In most cases people use them as old bangers to get from A to B and never bother to check them because they don't care about the car much. Then when the enthusiasts (that's us) get hold of them, we find hidden neglect aplenty.
A good refresh will probably have the brakes feeling amazing in comparison.
I'd agree... the brakes in good health are very good, my old black 360 had much better brakes than my blue one ever did. I believe that ran 5.1 fluid and Mintex pads. It'd lock 185 wide rubber up at 70mph
The cars aren't much over a tonne, so the brakes are quite adequate. My route home from work is along a dual carriageway broken up by roundabouts and I've lost count of all the newer, posher cars I've outbraked on the way home at 2 am
Though I think some of that is down to knowing the car and the route really well.
I'm guessing if you read it in Practical Performance car that would be my article and they are 280mm Golf G60 disks redrilled but not with golf calipers.
Adam
ahh.. yes, probably. a bit on confusion on my part there i think
if everyone says they're happy with them, it makes me a lot more confident about them. They seem to be ok at the moment (bar the fact they clearly need new pads, oil and probably hoses too by the sounds of it) i just worry too much i guess.
i do abuse motors a bit, just by driving hard at pretty much all times, so i just thought it would be best to uprate the stoppers a bit. be nice to get a set of grooved disks though, just to keep things a bit cooler
As FJ says, V300 brakes are actually very good. New pads, fluid, and hoses if necessary will get you stopping very quickly without recourse to engineering. I drive really quite aggressively at times, especially late night fast rural A roads, and never cooked.
There are Goodridge hoses knocking about on ebay for about 50 quid which I've been meaning to get.
'85 360GLT Mk2 3 Door B19E - SOLD
'94 L400 Mitsubishi Delica LWB
Spoke to Braydon Motor Spares on 020 8985 0336 (Tottenham area, London)
The guy on the other end said theres no point replacing the calipers as he's never heard of one going wrong. ever. Apparently replacing the discs and pads will be well enough.
I'll probably get new lines for the front though, eventually. just not yet. new fluid'll do for now
) so it may just be a result of YEARS of abuse. time to change them anyway of course.
