New Big Brake kit at Speedreligion.net

[jbaddeley]

Check out the new big brake kit for E46M3 owners offered by Speedreligion.net. Looks like great value and a cost effective solution to our weak brakes!

[Windymiller]

I've had my car in with Speed Religion since before Xmas as they've been investigating/developing the possibility of fitting the kit to my E46 M3 (that's mine in the pics). I've only had my car back since Thursday night, and it was raining then so I couldn't really test them. First impressions were that they looked rather good! I'd been a bit concerned that they may have looked a bit Porsche ceramic-brakes wannabe, but being more of a metallic yellow/mustard (similar to the gay M3 drivers colour of choice - Phoenix Yellow ) they look fine. Especially against my Carbon Black car. They fit behind stock 19's, though Speed Religion tell me I'd need spacers if I wanted to use 18's. I'd originally discussed having these fitted with stock M3 discs (instead of CSL ones) in the beginning, so they may have developed a kit to fir them to stock discs - you'd have to contact them directly to ask.

I'm still taking it easy as they've just been fitted, but I can already feel a LOT more bite in the brakes, inspiring a lot more confidence, which is the one thing I've always felt the M3 let itself down on. I took the car out today for a short run so couldn't get much heat into them, but they haul the car up a LOT quicker than the OEM's ever did.

I'll be able to give more detailed feedback after my next trackday in February.

The kit on my car consists of BMW Performance yellow 6 pot Brembo callipers with Brembo pads, M3 CSL 345mm x 28mm floating discs, plus Goodridge braided hoses. There's no choice of caliper colour from BMW that I know of.





I'd been looking at AP's, and there's no doubting that they're the nuts, but I couldn't justify the outlay of just over £2,000 for the fronts with the car not being a full-on trackday weapon. These came in at less than half that with the hoses, and I'll be getting the rears fitted after my next track day too.

Here's the calipers themselves...

Fronts...



Backs...

[iguana]

Great idea for a kit, been thinking somone would do something with the calipers since I saw them on a 130i & heard the price. Crazy that BM persisted with the single piston cack for so long, esp on CSL.

Think the stock brembo pads might be a weak point on tracking with that set up, pagids rs29 etc etc more suitable.

I wonder if with regular e46 m3 discs (CSL size too big) or indeed e36 m3discs it will fit under 17s for e36 use?

[Windymiller]

Pagid pads are being developed at the moment...

I'm told the calipers don't fit the standard M3 disc as the diameter is too small.

[Rawhide]

Do they come in other colours? Black would be ideal..

[Windymiller]

They're the same caliper as fitted to the 135i, which has a grey caliper, so in theory yes.

[Jake.]

Windymiller said:

Speed Religion

I've been searching for this thread because I'm going to need some new discs and pads on my e46 m3 before long and I thought a mild upgrade would be in order.

I vaguely remembered this thread and the mention of this kit being around half the price of a proper BBK. Eventually I found this thread again only to find Speed Religion are now out of business.


Anyone know of any other options for upgrading to CSL size disks at reasonable cost? Or a budget BBK, say around the £1000 mark (not inc fitting costs)


Cheers.

[Paul_M3]

K-Sport do an 8 pot setup with 356mm disks for just over a grand.

http://www.k-sport.co.uk/order.asp?id=106&loc=...

Not sure how good they are on BMW's, but I've heard reasonable things on the Mitsubishi Evo forums.

[Jake.]

Paul_M3 said:

K-Sport do an 8 pot setup with 356mm disks for just over a grand.

http://www.k-sport.co.uk/order.asp?id=106&loc=...

Thanks for that, Paul.

It's +vat though, and around £200 extra for some decent pads, plus VAT again. So you're looking at around £1500 all-in. If you're going to do that you might as well go the whole hog and splash out 2k for StopTecs or the like.
Seems like overkill for road use. Shame the standard brakes are so poor.

[jbaddeley]

Speed Religion are no more apparently!

[pmoloney]

Speed Religion are indeed out of business but it may be worth getting hold of Ant anyway... he may still have contacts. You can probably PM him via this link which is his profile on bmwtrackzone.com

http://www.zonemotorsport.co.uk/phpbb3/memberlist....

[Windymiller]

I've spoken to the manufacturer of the brackets needed to fit these (or the 135i grey versions) to an E46, and they can be supplied for about £100 the pair. I'll get some pictures up shortly.

They're the same ones as fitted to my car - the car the brackets were developed for.

Let me know if you're interested.

[rassi]

I know this one is based in Belgium, but it is a nice shop and they have done this kit on both E9X models as well as an E39 M5. http://www.performance-shop-geel.be/Klant_E93_320i...

Maybe drop them a line (is also over on M5board, under the handle of "Frits").

http://www.performance-shop-geel.be/contact_en.htm...

[AliV6]

Thought i'd give this another bump! I'm after a set of 6 pots. Between the devil and the deep blue see. Over 3k for Alcons!

[M3816]

Hey Windymiller I am looking to get a set of these on my car do you have more info on the carrier because i am in the states. Also has anyone consider fitting Performance friction rotors with this kit instead of csl/zcp rotors?

[Windymiller]

Sorry mate, I sold the car a few months back, and sold the brakes separately the same day!

[M3816]

I am sorry to hear you sold your M but, you mentioned something about people in Belguim making carriers for the kit for 100 euros. Do they need the existing caliper and do you know if speed religion is still selling them ?

[Windymiller]

It was the guy from Speed Religion himself. I'll ask him next time I see him.

[M3816]

thank you i really appretiate it =)

[M3816]

any luck, does he have any more laying around.... even the adaptor should do