BREMEBO BRAKES

BREMEBO BRAKES

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thebraketester

14,192 posts

137 months

Monday 23rd January 2017
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You go on track and overheat a Ds2500 (easy) and tell everyone that they behave the same at all temperatures.

SILICONEKID345HP

14,997 posts

230 months

Monday 23rd January 2017
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portzi said:
You can get TVR AP calipers with discs for the front for considerably less than that !!!!!!
Where can I get the discs and AP callipers ..300mm thanks .

griffdude

1,819 posts

247 months

Tuesday 24th January 2017
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thebraketester said:
You go on track and overheat a Ds2500 (easy) and tell everyone that they behave the same at all temperatures.
Bow to your superior knowledge of course. However, I won the TVRCC Speed Championship Class B (for RV8/AJP/SP6 engined cars) in 2014 & 2015, won Classic Marques MX5 class 2016 & in my experience in those championships plus numerous trackdays have tried many different pads & the DS2500 proved to be the best at providing consistent performance.

edit- the thing with sprinting & hillclimbing is that you need the brakes to work on the first & last corners, which is why the DS2500 is so effective.


Edited by griffdude on Tuesday 24th January 10:29

portzi

2,296 posts

174 months

Tuesday 24th January 2017
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SILICONEKID345HP said:
portzi said:
You can get TVR AP calipers with discs for the front for considerably less than that !!!!!!
Where can I get the discs and AP callipers ..300mm thanks .
lots of suppliers for AP Calipers you will need to shop around to get best quote. As for discs I used Grand Jeep Cherokee Bosch Discs,£100 for the pair, but had to redrill to 5 stud and redrill them to 114.5mm PCD, but don't quote me on the PCD it was over 5 years ago now. If yours are 4 stud then just redrill to suit your hubs smile.

Brummmie

5,284 posts

220 months

Tuesday 24th January 2017
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Be Quick, AP Racing have just put 8% on all products.

portzi

2,296 posts

174 months

Tuesday 24th January 2017
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portzi said:
SILICONEKID345HP said:
portzi said:
You can get TVR AP calipers with discs for the front for considerably less than that !!!!!!
Where can I get the discs and AP callipers ..300mm thanks .
lots of suppliers for AP Calipers you will need to shop around to get best quote. As for discs I used Grand Jeep Cherokee Bosch Discs,£100 for the pair, but had to redrill to 5 stud and redrill them to 114.5mm PCD, but don't quote me on the PCD it was over 5 years ago now. If yours are 4 stud then just redrill to suit your hubs smile.
Brummmie said:
Be Quick, AP Racing have just put 8% on all products.
lickkerty split DAZ, you better get a rotate avanty.

ChimpOnGas

9,637 posts

178 months

Tuesday 24th January 2017
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griffdude said:
Wrong.

The pad that I use is totally consistent regardless of temperature - Ferodo DS2500. You really do talk a load of garbage.
Garbage, an American word that's not even part of the English vocabulary so I'll ignore your abusive statement on the grounds you must hail from across the pond which in turn means you currently have a lot more to worry about than brakes.

To be 100% clear my comments are merely designed to highlight the completely inarguable fact that the correct way to uprate your brakes is to fit better hardware (calipers/discs), rather than attempting to do so by installing track day pads in the standard calipers.

For your information I have used Ferodo DS2500 pads and am pleased to confirm they perform very well, I can also confirm from direct experience they do however make more dust than a typical road compound pad. See, there's your compromise right there, you may well be happy to accept this dusting compromise but many others may not.

More dust and road wheels that go black in short order sounds like an insignificant issue but in practice it can actually become very annoying indeed if you value a well presented car, increased dusting is definitely one of the compromises that come with the DS2500 pad. But there is a better way, because the facts are if you fit this excellent Brembo conversion using genuine Brembo road pads you would definitely have given yourself a far superior performing brake setup than standard mono piston slider calipers just fitted with Ferodo DS2500 pads.

And by doing it the Brembo way you're not only implementing the properly engineered solution to better brakes, you're also avoiding the increased dust of the DS2500 pad and the further undesirable characteristics that typically come with other track day pads.

That's not garbage (or rubbish to use the correct queens English), that's fact.

griffdude

1,819 posts

247 months

Wednesday 25th January 2017
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ChimpOnGas said:
That's not garbage (or rubbish to use the correct queens English), that's fact.
Close but no cigar Gasbag, my work takes me to the USA 4-5 times per month so please forgive my poor use of language. Oh by the way, how's the situational awareness? Still blocking people in parking spaces?

Re the brakes, had a very useful chat with Carbon Lorraine brakes who offer some good pad solutions one of which I purchased.



davep

1,141 posts

283 months

Wednesday 25th January 2017
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griffdude said:
ChimpOnGas said:
That's not garbage (or rubbish to use the correct queens English), that's fact.
Close but no cigar Gasbag, my work takes me to the USA 4-5 times per month so please forgive my poor use of language. ...
On the issue of usage, interestingly the origin of 'garbage' according to Oxford English is Late Middle English (in the sense ‘offal’) - from Anglo-Norman French, of unknown ultimate origin.

And to be correct it's Queen's English!

But more apposite: gasbag, NOUN, A person who talks or posts excessively about trivial things. wink

SILICONEKID345HP

14,997 posts

230 months

Thursday 26th January 2017
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Nothing wrong with Dave , top bloke !

None of us are normal thats why we drive a TVR .