zx14 have a Brembo master setup? Maybe swap over to this?
They do...but if the gen3 MC is at fault, it can only be a bad seal, or an out of spec or damaged piston or cylinder bore.
That will cause an air leak, and will lead to a spongey lever and failing brakes.
BUT, assuming that is the case, I cannot understand how you can build brake pressure back immediately, and retain brakes for a long period of time.
That also applies to a leak Anywhere in the system.
So that leads me to think that the fault must be in the ABS pump.
Consider it is pulsing fluid at high rates in fractions of a second to create the on/off/on/off effect that is ABS braking.
I am unfamiliar with the gen3's ABS system, so I cannot comment on it's exact mechanical function.
But, they are not complex parts, rather just rapidly opening and closing valves.
I have seen one brake line and one clutch line(gsxr1k rear and Bking clutch) fail.
No fluid leaks, nothing.
No amount of bleeding would fix them either. Both were sucking air, but with 3-5 layers of the line, no fluid could escape.
There is obviously air getting in the system somewhere, and we know that air will eventually move towards the end of the lines, to the calipers and the MC's.
The rapid action of the ABS pump seems to be the only part capable of moving the fluid in the line, and therefor the air in the line that quickly.
The only info that I can find on the gen3 ABS pump says that it is a gen3 specific part only as well, so it's not a gsxr transplant, but rather based on it.
It's also been proven now that bleeding doesn't fix this.
I also wonder what the odds are that a defective ABS pump was replaced with another bad part.
There's no telling how many bad manufactured anything make it to suppliers.
I would think and hope Suzuki's QC is taking a serious look at all the braking components.
For as long as this has went on, it's gotten pathetic on their part.
DO SOMETHING SUZUKI!!!!!!
