yea those are the gash ones Tim! the pad guide pins arn't wide enough to take the 25mm disc as standard, so you have to trim them down.
the pistons in them are also only 28 and 30mm, as opposed to 36 and 40mm in the 996 fronts. the rear calipers give an incredibly hard pedal feel, with similar power to a 312mm setup with standard calipers.
I've also been told that they're incredible prone to fade, much like the standard brakes
cheers man
I sourced teh calipers myself for £300 posted, and paid Dave a further £500 all in for everything, a 100% bolt on kit, with RS19 track pads, all the lines, anti squeal shims, everything I'd need.
It's hardly cheap, but in my opinion these are better than brembo's, and a few hundred quid cheaper too
£200 more for the Brembo, I would have. Looks better
Having "Porsche" brakes on another marque is just simply pretentious.
Anyway, nice write up.
£200 more for the Brembo, I would have. Looks better
Having "Porsche" brakes on another marque is just simply pretentious.
Anyway, nice write up.
it's not pretentious at all dude, Porsche are known to have among the best brakes of any cars on the planet..... why anyone would not want good brakes is beyond me....
These calipers ARE made by brembo, they just happen to be better than those supplied with the GT kit. they're much lighter calipers, and being mono block, they're stiffer too.
Being for a porsche, the range of available pads is much greater, and the 330mm larger discs are an improvement over the 323mm discs of the GT's.
I'm not knocking the GT kit at all, it's brilliant, I'm simply saying that what I have here is an arguably better brake kit, for less money.
Sorry to quote something from months ago but it should be remembered that the great grandpa of the S3, the RS2 had Porsche brakes (as well as lots of other Porsche bits), so the precedent and provenance is there!