Largest brakes to fit. 16 " wheels

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Anyone running. AP CP6600 callipers with 300mm discs or larger behind 16 " rims ?

[Andav469]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Anyone running. AP CP6600 callipers with 300mm discs or larger behind 16 " rims ?

I'm running 324mm discs behind standard 16" Estorils

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Is that with spacers ?

[Mr Haribo]

Like this ?

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Mr Haribo said:

Like this ?

Yes are these the. 300mm discs fitted to a 16" wheels

CP6600 calliper

Edited by SILICONEKID345HP on Sunday 22 January 20:54

Edited by SILICONEKID345HP on Sunday 22 January 20:57

[Mr Haribo]

Am I right in saying that a 325mm disc the caliper can catch the wheel weights ?

[Andav469]

Mr Haribo said:

Am I right in saying that a 325mm disc the caliper can catch the wheel weights ?

I have no issues on mine, though they are close

Edited by Andav469 on Sunday 22 January 22:11

[Andav469]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Is that with spacers ?

Yes, was with 12mm hubcentric spacers, but have now bought bells and rotors with the bells manufactured 12mm wider and so eliminating the spacers

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Willwood do a nice 300 mm kit with 32mm width discs .

Are AP better quality than Hi spec , Willwood and Brembo?

[footnote]Edited

Edited by SILICONEKID345HP on Monday 23 January 09:14

[BeastMaster]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Willwood do a nice 300 mm kit with 32mm width discs .

Are AP better quality than Hi spec , Willwood and Brembo?

[footnote]Edited

Edited by SILICONEKID345HP on Monday 23 January 09:14

Willwood 298.5mm x 32mm directional vane rotor mounted on aluminium bells with 4 pot Willwood aluminium superlight calipers, mintex mdb1795/m1144 fast road wildwood superlight pads - all in the standard 15 inch wheel







Sorry for the poor quality pic's taken in garage in the dark

Very happy with performance, and more important the feel is fantastic allowing big braking without lock up.

Andy

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Did you use spacers ?

[Engineer1949]

we have 300mm on the blown chim and matching 300mm on the rear six pot front two pot rear very balanced built by hispec nice quality.

john

[Andav469]

Engineer1949 said:

we have 300mm on the blown chim and matching 300mm on the rear six pot front two pot rear very balanced built by hispec nice quality.

john

I have to disagree with you on this one, the rear hispec kit is atrocious and amateur at best, both the handbrake and main pads overhang the disc, a total bodge

[BeastMaster]

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Did you use spacers ?

No need for spacers, the bells are machined to suit the application, so that the wheel and disc can be set up exact and once correct its an easy job to just change the rotors.

Although an expensive way to go, its very light and does not suffer with heat build up. The set up came on the car but had a slight wobble and was running race pads. Changed the rotors and went for fast road pad which works very well, needed to be careful with the race pads for the first few miles as they did not want to pull the car up until well up to temp, the race pads also did not have the feel of the road version.

Have heard a few people having warp problems with rotors, but have not had issues myself, although Rally Design who supplied the new ones did stress about taking things easy for the first 500 miles.

Andy

[SILICONEKID345HP]

I have 16 " wheels so maybe 325 discs will fit .last thing I want is spacers .

[RobXjcoupe]

BeastMaster said:

SILICONEKID345HP said:

Willwood do a nice 300 mm kit with 32mm width discs .

Are AP better quality than Hi spec , Willwood and Brembo?

[footnote]Edited

Edited by SILICONEKID345HP on Monday 23 January 09:14

Willwood 298.5mm x 32mm directional vane rotor mounted on aluminium bells with 4 pot Willwood aluminium superlight calipers, mintex mdb1795/m1144 fast road wildwood superlight pads - all in the standard 15 inch wheel







Sorry for the poor quality pic's taken in garage in the dark

Very happy with performance, and more important the feel is fantastic allowing big braking without lock up.

Andy

I've got a similar willwood setup on the front of my Griff. As above but behind 15" estorils. About 4mm clearance on the inner rim if I remember. It's wearing 17's now so plenty of clearance. TBH 300mm front discs are plenty big enough for the size and weight of the car. Obviously 'tis your money to spend

[Engineer1949]

andav sorry to hear your problems ours works well and no overhangs have you got the correct pads?

john

[s3c chris]

I think the use of spacers depends on the offset of the wheels.

Fitting standard 16" wheels to the front will put the inner wheel face 10mm closer to the caliper so the spacer will probably be needed to clear it, 25mm offset wheels would probably be ok. The 325 disc should fit inside a 16" wheel but once again clearance would depend on the calipers used.
I think!

Chris.

[Richard 858]

Engineer1949 said:

andav sorry to hear your problems ours works well and no overhangs have you got the correct pads?

john

I agree with Jon, I have 300mm 1 piece vented discs front & rear with 4 pot WMS on the front and 2 pot Hi-spec on the rear with EBC yellow stuff all round and no braking problems at all, although I will agree with Andav that the Hi-spec handbrake arrangement is pretty poor.

[SILICONEKID345HP]

Just measured the gap between the closest part of the calliper to the inside of the wheel , its just over 20mm with 285 discs and billet 4 Hi Spek callipers .

I can use the same callipers with ether 300 or 325 discs .

Would 325mm squeeze in with out spacers ?