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mrdemon
Original Poster
3,032 posts
134 months
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Well that made me sweat a bit today in the sun, did the detail last weekend so a bit dusty now, but you get the idea. 997 GT3 Disks, RS29's (and dampers, bolts etc) and a bit of Zymol concours   
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V8KSN
1,313 posts
53 months
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You could eat your dinner off them! So clean!
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neil-f
1,303 posts
76 months
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Now take it out for a thrash and post up pics of the wheels covered in brake dust 
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mrdemon
Original Poster
3,032 posts
134 months
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I know, don't want to drive it now, should trailer it to the TIPEC concours event this Sunday.
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rog007
3,047 posts
93 months
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Assume those centre caps will be straightened up on the day... 
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arcamalpha
282 posts
33 months
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What pads did you have before and how do the RS29s compare?
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matc
4,282 posts
76 months
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mrdemon said: I know, don't want to drive it now, should trailer it to the TIPEC concours event this Sunday. GT3s should be banned from concours events - they deserve to be thrashed round tracks and country roads instead of sat in carcoons having been polished to within an inch of their lives! Yours looks superb though! 
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mrdemon
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3,032 posts
134 months
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pads were the Pagid Porsche P90, but the system needed a refresh.
I had RS29 on the TTRS and they were awesome, Also the GT3 boys seems to use RS29's as well.
Not tried it yet, will need bedding in and heat cycling.
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fioran0
1,392 posts
41 months
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RS29 are pretty much the go to option on the front of a track used GT3 with the street ABS still on there. Not very much initial bite but fairly linear, last a long time and give good disc life. RS14 for the rear.
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Slippydiff
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92 months
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fioran0 said: RS29 are pretty much the go to option on the front of a track used GT3. Not very much initial bite. Maybe with the lightly servoed set up the 996 GT3 Neil, but on my CSL with AP 6 pots and 356mm PF discs on the front and 4 pots on the rear, they'd launch you through the screen if you so much as thought about touching the brake pedal. Once you'd learned to modulate them, they were the best brakes I've experienced on a road car. Period. As I understood it the RS29 compound was developed specifically to provide more initial bite over the RS19.
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Zyp
5,705 posts
58 months
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mrdemon said: Well that made me sweat a bit today in the sun, did the detail last weekend so a bit dusty now, but you get the idea. 997 GT3 Disks, RS29's (and dampers, bolts etc) and a bit of Zymol concours Has this increased the value even more? Hope the new owner is appreciative. 
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mrdemon
Original Poster
3,032 posts
134 months
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I think buyers can tell what a car is worth by looking what's been spent on it.
GT3's are not like a new car out the showroom.
If some one wants a sorted GT3 they will have to pay the going rate.
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fioran0
1,392 posts
41 months
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Hey Henry,
I guess it's all relative. More initial bite than the RS19 and the stock pads for sure but a lot less than RS14, the Porsche P50 type and pretty much a whole raft of other race pads.
The RS14 when still below warmed up has as much grip as the RS29 maxed out.
On the race pad scale they are considered very mild indeed hence their designation as an endurance pad (12/24h races)
This actually makes them great for tracked street cars as the ABS can handle (mostly) the improvement.
I was merely commenting to put the OPs awesome comment into context. A great upgrade and I'd agree, a fantastic pad on a street car that sees track use with ABS but not an awesome pad.
Btw, endless make a pad that's about 1500 for either an axle or a caliper ( I was too busy choking to remember clearly but I think it was caliper). Lasts longer than RS29, gives great disc life and stops almost like a sprint pad. It's outrageous. I'm trying to figure out how to justify using it lol.
Edited to add: you still got the CSL. I've never even been in one. A great wrong imho
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NBTBRV8
834 posts
77 months
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fioran0 said: Hey Henry,
I guess it's all relative. More initial bite than the RS19 and the stock pads for sure but a lot less than RS14, the Porsche P50 type and pretty much a whole raft of other race pads.
The RS14 when still below warmed up has as much grip as the RS29 maxed out.
On the race pad scale they are considered very mild indeed hence their designation as an endurance pad (12/24h races)
This actually makes them great for tracked street cars as the ABS can handle (mostly) the improvement.
I was merely commenting to put the OPs awesome comment into context. A great upgrade and I'd agree, a fantastic pad on a street car that sees track use with ABS but not an awesome pad.
Btw, endless make a pad that's about 1500 for either an axle or a caliper ( I was too busy choking to remember clearly but I think it was caliper). Lasts longer than RS29, gives great disc life and stops almost like a sprint pad. It's outrageous. I'm trying to figure out how to justify using it lol.
Edited to add: you still got the CSL. I've never even been in one. A great wrong imho
So for street usage with the occasional track day you'd recommend the P50 standard 996 GT3 pad?
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mrdemon
Original Poster
3,032 posts
134 months
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It's a p90 and the rs29 has better bite so don't see the point fitted a P90 over the rs29 in a gt3.
I guess the RS29 might eat disks quicker and maybe squeal when going slow.
I guess no one really know s what a p90 is unless you work for Pagid.
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jackwood
1,214 posts
77 months
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Mind me asking how much you paid for disks and pads?
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fioran0
1,392 posts
41 months
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NBTBRV8 said: So for street usage with the occasional track day you'd recommend the P50 standard 996 GT3 pad? P50 is the porsche motorsport pad that comes as delivered on the 996/997 cups, the stock yellow coloured pad that comes with the GT3 is P90 i believe. its yellow in colour but not the same as the pagid yellows (which are the RS29 motorsport pads) the stock pad is actually pretty decent at resisting fade, but you wont have any of it left at the end of a track day. the P50 i would most definitely NOT recommend for a street car. RS29 is definitely the pad to go to on the GT3 if you are looking for more at a track day, if its a 996 then run RS14 on the rear along with it.
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Slippydiff
5,041 posts
92 months
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fioran0 said: P50 is the porsche motorsport pad that comes as delivered on the 996/997 cups, the stock yellow coloured pad that comes with the GT3 is P90 i believe. its yellow in colour but not the same as the pagid yellows (which are the RS29 motorsport pads)
the stock pad is actually pretty decent at resisting fade, but you wont have any of it left at the end of a track day.
the P50 i would most definitely NOT recommend for a street car.
RS29 is definitely the pad to go to on the GT3 if you are looking for more at a track day, if its a 996 then run RS14 on the rear along with it.
Hi Neil, I wasn't aware the RS14s had that high C of F. What's the downside for street use ? Demon, the P90 is a development of the RS 19 apparently, no doubt with added bite from cold, less chance of squeal etc etc. (just for the record, I never experienced ANY squeal from the RS29s on the front of the CSL, irrespective of whether I was doing gorge runs in the South of France or doing slow speed city driving) CSL now gone now Neil, but recently replaced with a 1M Coupe, currently toying with the idea of putting some big APs on the front of it, as whilst BMW have put some decent sized discs on it (360mm semi floating) they still insist on fitting cheap and nasty sliding calipers. 
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jackwood
1,214 posts
77 months
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fioran0 said: P50 is the porsche motorsport pad that comes as delivered on the 996/997 cups, the stock yellow coloured pad that comes with the GT3 is P90 i believe. its yellow in colour but not the same as the pagid yellows (which are the RS29 motorsport pads)
the stock pad is actually pretty decent at resisting fade, but you wont have any of it left at the end of a track day.
the P50 i would most definitely NOT recommend for a street car.
RS29 is definitely the pad to go to on the GT3 if you are looking for more at a track day, if its a 996 then run RS14 on the rear along with it.
Why RS14's on the rear and not RS29's all round?
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fioran0
1,392 posts
41 months
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jackwood said: Why RS14's on the rear and not RS29's all round? the RS29 just doesnt ever get doing anything when fitted to the rear on the 996 GT3. The RS14 works much better back there. this combo has been pretty much the "go to" combination for tracked GT3s for a long time in the US, where theres much more experience than in the UK regarding tracking and racing with street GT3s.
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