Excellent, I’ll see if the make those for my car. I want to be able to have fun on mountain roads and eventually autox the car without totally trashing the brakes every time. A track day would be really fun, but I want to get better at driving first, and there’s a few more parts I want to get.
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Also flush your brakes and put in some good fluid (Motul, ATE, etc.).
There’s no better way to get better at driving than doing an HPDE (driver’s school) on a real track. Get a BMWCCA membership, sign up for an event. Don’t waste money buying parts that you think the car needs to handle better or what not. At a track, the only thing you need is safety and brakes. I’ve seen guys on track with some jalopies, such as a newish Ford Five Hundred. I’ll let you think about that for a moment and let it sink in… A Ford… Five Hundred… On track.
As Brett said earlier and Jeff also just said, brake fluid is important as well. For any street car, ATE superblue is perfectly fine and has a high enough wet/dry boiling point. Once you really start using the brakes, which I can promise you will never happen on any mountain road or street, jump to Motul or something more expensive with even higher boiling points.
The parts I was referring to were mainly brakes actually. Rear disc conversion and some better brakes up front (rotor over hub conversion). Only non-braking system part is maybe a rear sway bar (car didn’t come stock with one), mainly to make the car more fun and reduce understeer/cornering on the wing mirrors. That and a couple repair parts/general things a 14 year old car needs.
And the thought of a Ford Five Hundred going around a track is makes the part of my brain that I use in physics classes hurt a lot.