Thread: Reducing Brake Drag
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Old 06-16-2018, 06:31 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daschicken View Post
Here is what I did for my accord.
80% improvement in spin time is really good. I bought a pair of springs online for a Civic similar to mine once and there was scraping. So I gave them away to someone on this forum with the right trim Civic. No idea if they worked for him. Making my own is a new thought.

Question: in the video, after the install, on the spins where you had pressed the brake, you can hear a scraping noise that reminds me of the scraping I heard from my clips. What is making the noise? It seems like it could be the spring srapping the outside edge of the rotor, no?

Also, I wonder if I could make a set from wire hangers. Seems about the same gauge and strength as bike spokes, no?
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.
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