94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 Please, Please, PLEASE don't complain about your brakes being crappy if they look like this!!!! Yes, that's right, LOOK at those rotors! They are actually blued on top of looking like that. The pads had also gotten so hot they had cracked! These are off my dad's 1990 Quad 4 5-speed Base car. You really don't notice the brakes being that bad because of how well the car compression brakes. His front tires were also smooth so i put some from the Q4 Int'l on the front so nobody would die in this thing in the rain. The worst part is the car came with a brand new set of front rotors so this cost a whopping $21 to fix. The torx caliper adaptor bolts even came right out Quote
cutlsp Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 that black base quad4 is hot.... first time i've ever seen a pic of it I think. Quote
Euro Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 diggin the different wheels haha and if a black base cutlass coupe is hot..then... Quote
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 22, 2006 Author Report Posted June 22, 2006 hey if you guys like that car, it will be for sale in a few months...and considering how nice it runs and how many new parts are on it, its gonna be cheap. Oh yeah, and it will only come with its original 15" crosslaces Quote
ToroToro Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 That's pretty close to how my rears were. I could tell with mine though...people actually thought I was stab braking it pulsed so bad. Quote
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 22, 2006 Author Report Posted June 22, 2006 the thing is that they only occasionally pulsed!!! Quote
cutlsp Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 diggin the different wheels haha and if a black base cutlass coupe is hot..then... Yeah the quad4 5spd combo is very hot your 3.1 auto won't keep up with it. I like that car but I know I can't get it. Quote
Euro Posted June 22, 2006 Report Posted June 22, 2006 diggin the different wheels haha and if a black base cutlass coupe is hot..then... Yeah the quad4 5spd combo is very hot your 3.1 auto won't keep up with it. LOL thats old news buddy Quote
jdcutty Posted June 23, 2006 Report Posted June 23, 2006 <-- still things your car is hot suck up Quote
compu_85 Posted June 23, 2006 Report Posted June 23, 2006 Ya, kinda sucks how you loose area on the rotors there at the end. At 120,000 miles mine were metal on metal: -Jason Quote
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Posted June 23, 2006 yeah, i'm betting by the looks of these ones, that they were the originals, and the car has 141k on it now Quote
Brian P Posted June 23, 2006 Report Posted June 23, 2006 that isn't a HO quad though, right? And where is this car stationed, PA or MI? Quote
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Posted June 23, 2006 both of our Quad 4 cars are HO's (the 180hp/160 lb-ft variety), with the Getrag 282. Its in PA, near Erie Quote
Addicted2bass Posted June 25, 2006 Report Posted June 25, 2006 When I bought my GP recenty I had to do the rear brakes. The drivers side caliper was froze up half out and was hanging up. Both pads were completly down to the cracked metal. The rotors were all pitted up. I ended up doing pads rotors and calipers on both sides. The funniest part is even with the brakes like that it still stopped WAY better then my lumina I had before it. I had to plan every stop in the car and the brake pedal would pulsate horribly. I lent it to my friend one day, I told him how bad the brakes were and he still almost blew through the first stop sign he came to. Worst part is that the car had new rear rotors, pads and maybe even calipers when I bought it 6 months prior. 4 wheel disc on w-bodys=worst design EVER!! Quote
19Cutlass94 Posted June 25, 2006 Report Posted June 25, 2006 You know, everyone complains about how bad these brakes are on these cars. Maybe my car has been blessed or somthing, but the only trouble I have had has been a LR caliper lock up on me, and its been fine since. I mean I touch the brake pedal and the car just stops. I dunno though..... Quote
skiiirt Posted June 25, 2006 Report Posted June 25, 2006 I completely rotted through mine and broke the part where the brake applies pressure to the rotor. Needless to say I swerved to the right rather hard when I hit the brakes. Quote
GP1138 Posted June 25, 2006 Report Posted June 25, 2006 You know, everyone complains about how bad these brakes are on these cars. Maybe my car has been blessed or somthing, but the only trouble I have had has been a LR caliper lock up on me, and its been fine since. I mean I touch the brake pedal and the car just stops. I dunno though..... You have a '94. I believe they got new brakes after '94. Quote
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 26, 2006 Author Report Posted June 26, 2006 rear calipers are different on 94+, i've installed the 94+ rear brakes on our '90 International Series already. When we bought this '90 Base, its parking brake cables were hung in the on position and the rear brakes were trashed also. Out of all the cars with the newer rear brakes, we had a slider seize to the caliper on my sisters and other than that we've had no real issues. To be honest, now that '90 even with the old rear brakes stops pretty well. Of course, the parking brake is used very often since its a 5-speed, which using the parking brake is the secret to keeping the 88-93 rear brakes operating properly. Quote
19Cutlass94 Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 I knew 94+ got the bigger, dare I say 'better' brakes, but I though you had put the 94+ style brakes on before and was having problems with that. Quote
94CutlassSLCoupe Posted June 26, 2006 Author Report Posted June 26, 2006 the pics in this topic are the FRONT brakes (I think the brake pad shape is a dead giveaway lol), which are the same on all '88-'94 W-bodies (and some '95's). And its not really a problem, its just lack of maintence. those rotors were way too thin! Quote
19Cutlass94 Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 yeah my computer stopped downloading pics after the 3rd one was up, so I thought it was just the rotors and not pads as well. Sorry about that, its my bad. Quote
Addicted To Boost Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 Don't mean to hijack ur thread here, but my '90 GP SE had rear brakes that were so bad that they didn't work at all. The rotors were literally covered with 1/4 inch deep rust. LOL so I only had (barely) working fronts. Man I wish I had pictures of those rears! Done hijack. Quote
Crazy K Posted June 26, 2006 Report Posted June 26, 2006 all the gen 1 and 1.5 w bodys have the same front brakes. the only difference it the size of the rotor, and the offset of the bracket welded to the strut to compensate for the size of the rotor. 88-93 and 94 luminas had the bad rear brake design. 94+ all models and optional on 95+ lumina and M carlo are the better deisgned rear brakes. yeah I've seen some bad ones of all types. discless rotors, upside down calipers(WTF???) rusted thick rotors with calipers that had no pads installed:eek: things I wouldn't dream of driving on. Quote
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