Lude Generation

Just for anyone that is interested. I recently upgraded the ludes brakes as they was fading. I paid £20 for some ATR (accord type r) carriers. They bolted right up with the standard prelude caliper. No need to bleed. Then the ATR discs also was a straight bolt on which cost about £100 with ATR pads (also fit right in the lude calipers). The performance is greatly improved.

Differences in the disc is the reason.
282mm old to 300mm new is a 6.5% increase in size therefore leverage. Not night and day but helps.
But the thickness is were it at, which helps fade as has alot more cooling:
Prelude 23mm vs ATR 28mm is 22% thicker giving lots better cooling reducing fade.

I wish i took a photo of the disc thickness next to each other it really is a huge difference. As the cooling fins/veins are lots bigger and the disc face itself looks the same thickness as the lude. Ok im off to photoshop to make a diagram lol..

Ok so the difference in the middle where the cooling veins are is from:
8mm standard lude discs to 13mm ATR discs which is about 63% better cooling

Diagram: (might not be 100% accurate but you get the idea)



Hope this helps others who want a cheap brake upgrade which makes a big difference without having to bleed your brakes. Which for an average mechanic can be quite daunting. This took me less than a hour to do on a driveway. So even a DIY mechanic could have this done quickly. Maybe a hour a side if its your first time doing brakes.

Thanks.

I have found that carriers by themselves are very rare, although I bough my ATR calipers and carriers separately.

Alot of us have been rocking ATR front brakes since the early Victorian times.

RattyMcClelland wrote:Alot of us have been rocking ATR front brakes since the early Victorian times.

I was born with an ATR brake set up..

But for people with less know how this is a good thing to do. It also explains why it is a lot better over the standard brakes without being massive 330s and expensive Simple thread. Without pages to read through. I know a lot of you already run them. But i just wanted to lay out a simple thread without pages of reading for less mechanically minded folk. Unless i missed something and there is already a thread the same as this?

We did have a full picture by picture guide over on Preludeuk before it wents tits up and we all congragated here in 2010.

The jist was in this thread.

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Did you take any photos? it would be great to do a guide again for this site for other people.

Yes it seems most of the info is in there. Unfortunately i didnt take any pictures but a friend is going to get a lude soon as he loves mine. He is also planning on doing the brakes so will be sure to take photos if that ever happens.

The ATR upgrade is a good one.

I destroyed a set of bog standard pads from almost new to 1mm in a single day, and they overheated numerous times. I think the quality of the components on a standard setup is a lot to do with it. You can probably increase your brake performance simply by buying good stuff. A lot of parts (for hondas/Rovers etc) are interchangeable, so you get a lot of cheap ebay crap.

That said, decent discs/pads/fluids will help, but on my h22a5 lude at castle coombe, they still overheated badly after 3 or 4 laps with some horrible juddering (that ended up destroying my cat).

the ATR set up on the other hand is delightful. I rebuilt with new pistons and seals, ds2500 pads, drilled/grooved discs, and rb600 fluid, and they never gave one hint of letting up - very happy. The bigger calipers also fit under the standard 16inch wheels (although not if they have used big balance weights on the inside).

What about if you have 4 lugs on a 2.0 rather than the 5 on a 2.2 is there a upgrade for that

Andyjess666 wrote:What about if you have 4 lugs on a 2.0 rather than the 5 on a 2.2 is there a upgrade for that

Yes. There 262 to start with. Even getting the 282s makes a huge difference.

Calipers/carriers of a breaker. Any vtec prelude will do. 4th gen 282 discs and pads. You’ll need to slightly modify the backing plate. Made a huge difference to my old bb9. Hated the 262s on that.