# a\_ahmed? **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Off Topic\ **Created:** [August 28, 2007, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-ahmed/108990 "2007-08-28T22:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 116
**Author:** ![Fobwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ea924/32.png) [@Fobwall](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fobwall)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-ahmed/108990/116 "2007-08-30T13:49:13Z")
> [@what a day](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-a-day/13798/18): > > Just to quickly touch on the braking stuff… > > After having read everything in this thread, every word, I will say that i’m not fully happy with my stock-ish brakes, i’ll give a\_ahmed that one. > > No matter what I do with pads, rotors, fluid, bleeding, new MC and what not - I truly find the stock braking only barely sufficient (although it is enough for most cases and most drivers). But I guess there’s still a chance it’s just my setup in some way, shape or form…or perhaps I just enjoy having more braking power available than most might need. > > Either way, car manufacturers should really lean towards the overkill side when designing brake setups IMO…and the 240’s in my opinion came out average. So i’d say that since many of us track our cars and drive with a little extra “spirit” on the street from time to time so a proper upgrade is never a bad idea. Jon! Check out my brakes next time we meet, i’ll let you drive my car. It just has 180sx brakes with some blank rotors and HPS pads. SS braided lines in the front, and no special rbf600 fluid. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-ahmed/108990)._