[s-cars] Seeking "Todays" Big Brake Recommendations

[Lee Levitt]

Taka writes:

>
> Have you investigated the possibility of pad material transfer to the
> rotors?

I thought about the same thing...my OE brakes did this too, very
predictable, and highly annoying. My System3 brakes (Mintex Red pads) do not
do this at all.

Lee
'95.5 S6 avant
'96 A6 quattro avant

>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:39 AM
> To: S4audinut at aol.com
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Seeking "Todays" Big Brake Recommendations
>
>
> S4audinut at aol.com wrote:
> > You can get best prices for calipers, backets, and rotors at Crecent
> > city motors in New Orleans. Prices low enough that Igor got his BIRA
> > s8 rotor big reds for about 1200$. I dont know much else but that I
> > sent him to Crescent and he said the stuff saved him abt 350-400$
>
> Mmm, Rod, the kit that I've put together for my car has absolutely
> nothing to do with BIRA :) It is a product of my crawling around the
> car's supension with a Mitutoyo digital caliper and then sourcing the
> RS2 brackets from Russia, the 928gts calipers from Crescent, pads from
> Darin, SS lines from Earl's Indy and the rotors from you-know-who :)
>
> OTOH, now that you've mentioned it, I feel that a Porsche (or Colman)
> ring + a custom Aluminium hat may be a better solution. And that's where
> I will be going once I kill the S8 rotors. The problem is I have somehow
> managed to warp them to the point that the wheel wobbles with light
> braking. The wobbling kcompletely stops once you increase the foot
> pressure. Oh, and they do stop the car like a sumbitch. To compare them
> with the G60 is like my new cable internet with the dialup that I used
> to have. Like they say, there is no going back once uyou've experienced
> it.
>
> I am puzzled as to why did the rotors warp. They are the proper German
> made Zimmermanns (thx again, BTW!), I had them slotted and I had them I
> think properly bedded in for ~200 miles or so. The only other thing that
> I've done to them was painting the hub with a grey 1700F barbeque grill
> paint for rust prevention.
>
> Igor
> '97 UrS6 mit the BBB (Budget Big Blacks)
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