brembo front brake query

How well does the 86 or single piston brembo work?
I have a caliper and brake that seems good apart from oiled pads.

Am I better going to the twin piston unit? I believe the twin piston unit came out in 87?
How long was this used for before something better came along? I want to use pre 90 components and will stick with the conventional 40mm forks for now.(a whole other can of worms..)

I did a search on brembo and got not much so any info appreciated.

The 86 models had two pistons one on each side of the disc didn't they? The 87-88 ones have two pistons on the same side. There may well be a difference in the bore of the master cylinder as I once got a rebuild kit and it was the wrong size. The modern stuff and that goes back to 1998 and probably more have larger diameter rotors. If you want to use the 87-88 disc you will need the corresponding wheel and lower fork tube to attach it to. I kind of like the 85-86 version so I can call it the floppy disc and those forks flex around so much I thought It would accomidate that. Can't say about husky but some other bikes didn't make the first discs function too much different than the drum that the customer was used to. Sorry I can't tell you how much faster one would stop than the other. Neither will work like a new Husky.

Fran

The 85-86 brakes were/are terrible. The 87-88 were a little better. Best help for the 85-86 was to bolt a ktm 4-piston caliper on. Bolted right up, elevated brake performance to okay.
87-88, best choice was to graft on a Honda system, I remember using the complete Honda wheel and disc, don't remember what I did for caliper/mastercylinder.

what year was the ktm 4 piston caliper?