Hey guys, looking to upgrade the front brakes on my nc35. At the moment she is completely standard. I did a trackday on her last month and felt the brakes are very poor so want to upgrade. What are peoples choices of master cylinders and calipers?

You shouldn't need to upgrade the brakes, anything more than factory is overkill. Are they in good condition? Good pads? Pistons clean?

Cbr600 fi caliper they have a bigger piston 34mm and 32mm sbs duel carbon pads but they don’t like rain and any 19mm master cylinder. Get a brembo 19 20 is u got the cash and braided lines both from master cylinder about the best set up Iv tried

Are the cbr calipers a direct fit then?

If u have rvf400 then they go straight on 1999 until 2002 I think. if u are just doing track days u could just get a 17mm radial brembo and keep the rvf calipers U probably won’t notice the difference

Vincent wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 10:22 pm You shouldn't need to upgrade the brakes, anything more than factory is overkill. Are they in good condition? Good pads? Pistons clean?

What he said.

Matty, if you feel your brakes are "poor" I would suggest a full Service of the callipers (new seals, polish Pistons, new fluid and bleed). If you do that, which is also the cheaper, quicker and easier option, I strongly suspect you will be suitably impressed with a "refreshed" standard set up. If not you can always go down the more exotic/expensive route later.

All mine are standard and on the track I can easily get the rear wheel 'floating' as I am braking for the Corner at the end of the straight at Cadwell. Who needs anything more

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the calipers the same as a 929 blade?

Original condition



Vapor blasted, complete rebuild, brembo res, custom bracket







Original front caliper condition





Bead Blast and powdercoated, new OEM seals and Titan Classics Ti pistons, bleeder, etc, EPFA pads, HEL stainless lines







Rear caliper and master vapor blasted, full rebuild, Titan Classics Ti pistons, bleeder, etc, OEM seals and rubbers, Tyga Res, HEL Stainless line









Motul RBF600 brake fluid. They work pretty damn good. Careful attention to detail, assembly and bleeding and the stock stuff works excellent.