Bonneville America Forums Forums Technical Forums Performance Mods Zmilins build *finally started*

So the next step will be a brake upgrade.
After riding this weekend I came to a rather inconvenient realization that my current brake set up will not do, especially if Im hot rodding the bike around like I seem to be doing.

Keep in mind Im a larger guy (300#+) so the bike has a bit more stopping to do when it needs to slow me down...especially at speed.

When the bike was stock I went with better EBC pads. That did the trick.
I did some typical mods (pipes, Freak) and the above set up was ok but adding the EBC floating root was the ticket for sure.
Now the bike has some serious go power and needs some better stopping power. If Im riding normally its ok but since the bike has a tendency to get moving a lot faster and seems to be at a faster speed (I wonder how that happened all of a sudden) I will not be able to stop the way I want.

So after a conversation with Carlos today I learned that the America caliper and Bonny calipers seems to be the same. (damn, just remembered I forgot to ask him something). This means the Beringer calipers (4pot or 6pot) are a direct swap. Good news.

An upgrade to one of the above is good but to get the real performance out of them requires a master cylinder with a bigger diameter valve. Damn... I had forgot about that part of the equation!

The brakes (pun intended) are on this portion of the project for a coupe weeks at which time I will be ordering up a nice 6pot caliper and R3 m/c. Maybe even a new rotor just to be safe. Not sure yet.


Why the 6pot... cause Im still in the market for a 994 BB next year and if I do that I will need the 6pot then so I may as well do it now.

I know I could have waited for all this but what the heck... I like baiting you all along