Wendland Cayman RS 3,8 – Brake options

[Quasar]

Hello everyone! Cheers to all in this forum.

I found this forum on my search for breaking equipment for my Wendland Cayman RS 3,8 (400 bhp). It's running on standard S brakes from Porsche right now and thats okay for public roads but on the track of course... Allthough it is a little lighter than a standard car the brakes still can't take long turns with hard braking...

Leaving the PCB (ceramic brakes) with a price of 10k and othe disatvantages aside I am looking for alternatives. Does anyone have ideas and / or experience with discs and breakpads for the Cayman on the track?

Thanks a lot for all kind of ideas and links to websites.

Cheers


Quasar

[DiscoColin]

I'll pitch in with the obvious one - why not a set of GT3 anchors? The 996 6 piston calipers with either OE, Alcon or Brembo disks ought to have more than enough bite. I understand that people are fitting them to scoobys these days too (saw a kit for that the other day with AP disks).

I would expect the usual Porsche indies with good reputations for track setup (JZM, Parr, Tech9, etc...) will probably have an opinion: try calling around?

[speedyellow]

Wouldn't the obvious thing to do to take it back to Wendland they must offer a brake upgrade if they are doing engine swops at this level?

But as for which I'd go with the GT3 6 pots, tried and tested but getting the bias and master cylnder sizing could be an issue? Make sure whoever does it has fitted them successfully before!

[Ninemeister]

We have just supercharged a Boxster S to a similar power level, naturally we fitted 996 Turbo brakes all round with a GT3 master cylinder and the darn thing stops faster than you would ever believe possible. As far as I know we are the only ones making the special parts required to fit the turbo brakes onto the rear axle of the boxster chassis, but given the huge power and large rear weight bias you need them to get the car to stop properly. So the answer is to take a trip to Warrington....

[bumcrack]

Any more details on the 3.2 S supercharger??

Looked on the website, but can't see anything

would a 2002 Boxster with 50K on the clock make a decent starting point for a supercharger install?

[Wetwipe]

bumcrack said:

Any more details on the 3.2 S supercharger??

Looked on the website, but can't see anything

would a 2002 Boxster with 50K on the clock make a decent starting point for a supercharger install?

I can see where you are going with this BC.......

[bumcrack]

Vroom,vroom!!!

[ChrisW.]

Ninemeister said:

We have just supercharged a Boxster S to a similar power level, naturally we fitted 996 Turbo brakes all round with a GT3 master cylinder and the darn thing stops faster than you would ever believe possible. As far as I know we are the only ones making the special parts required to fit the turbo brakes onto the rear axle of the boxster chassis, but given the huge power and large rear weight bias you need them to get the car to stop properly. So the answer is to take a trip to Warrington....

I'm not sure I undrstand this, sorry.

Boxster has far less rear weight balance than 911.

Weight transfer on braking is forwards.

Front brakes are always --- therefore --- much more beefy front then rear --- so why the emphasis on rear braking ?