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Can anyone give me some advice on what brake discs i should consider. I would like better braking from my SAAB 900 Turbo, can anyone recommend a particular disc make, or disc and pad combo. Any help would be appreciated.
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I would go for a good quality top make from ECP for the disc, and spend more money on the pads, as this is a bigger variable. What is wrong with the standard fitting which is normally good?
If the discs and pads are worn, you might be slowly getting use to it. A new standard set up might be pleasantly surprising.
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In what respect of better braking are you looking for?
High speed braking suffering or town driving squealing or lack of feel or just takes too long to stop or juddering or smelling etc etc.
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I'm assuming you mean a pre-GM 900. When I had one of these cars, I would say that the service brake was one of its best aspects - 11" disks front and 10" rear.
The brakes are not over-servoed and need a shove, but the all-out stopping power on my car was formidable. The disks are not ventilated, which means that they would heat up more in the case of repeated high speed stops, but in the real world of maybe one hard stop, their performance was beyond question and far better than that of many more recent cars.
GSF sell standard disks cheaply - embellishments are purely a gimmick. Choose your pads carefully though; I found Mintex to be the best, Lockheed second best and the others, not too good.
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