S3RYE
Interior Next!!
Hi,
Basically ive been driving my car pretty hard lately.. last night was out with a friend (E46 M3) and was having a bit of fun... he had a real scary moment ( i actually thought he was going to plough straight into back of me) after i hit the brakes hard.. so much so that he had to go round me and miss a turning!! anyway so there was me thinking wow... i cant beleive the S3 brakes are outpowering M3 brakes.. (obv we know an M3 has a bigger heavier engine and heavier car in general! but they have 4 pot brakes with big ventilated drilled discs) anyway as i pulled onto my driveway (skip on there that i have to park right up to) i nearly went straight into it!! brakes basically werent working! had to stomp the pedal HARD!! absolutely crapped myself!! i mean this was after maybe 3-4 serious hard brakes!!
so anyway after we got back it really got me thinking! when the S3's are standard the brakes really are sufficient.. i mean maybe on a track they arent great but for fast road use they are pretty good! but once you step the power up they really do start to turn into cheese...
so ive come to the conclusion.. i think i need a BBK before i go with stage 2+ otherwise im going to end up
im keen to know of anyone else running standard brakes with modified engines has had scary moments like this!! i mean ive had the normal fading and spongy pedal many times but last night they were terrible...
Basically ive been driving my car pretty hard lately.. last night was out with a friend (E46 M3) and was having a bit of fun... he had a real scary moment ( i actually thought he was going to plough straight into back of me) after i hit the brakes hard.. so much so that he had to go round me and miss a turning!! anyway so there was me thinking wow... i cant beleive the S3 brakes are outpowering M3 brakes.. (obv we know an M3 has a bigger heavier engine and heavier car in general! but they have 4 pot brakes with big ventilated drilled discs) anyway as i pulled onto my driveway (skip on there that i have to park right up to) i nearly went straight into it!! brakes basically werent working! had to stomp the pedal HARD!! absolutely crapped myself!! i mean this was after maybe 3-4 serious hard brakes!!
so anyway after we got back it really got me thinking! when the S3's are standard the brakes really are sufficient.. i mean maybe on a track they arent great but for fast road use they are pretty good! but once you step the power up they really do start to turn into cheese...
so ive come to the conclusion.. i think i need a BBK before i go with stage 2+ otherwise im going to end up
im keen to know of anyone else running standard brakes with modified engines has had scary moments like this!! i mean ive had the normal fading and spongy pedal many times but last night they were terrible...