[s-cars] I HATE my Porsche brakes!!!

[Charles Baer]

Paul,

I'm running BIRA S6-S6 on my sedan, would have shown it to you
if I hadn't driven my truck and we knew your were going to have
this problem after you headed south.

Anyway, the BIRA parts were brackets $250, hats $450.  I didn't
use any funky noise plates or anything else, just used the standard
Porsche pads and I have NO vibration problems.

Yah know, I think chiny red 996tt clips would look fantastic on that
black beasty....

Charlie


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Friedenberg [mailto:paulunm at msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 10:52 PM
> To: S Car; Darin Nederhoff, Managing Editor
> Subject: [s-cars] I HATE my Porsche brakes!!!
>
>
> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> Yes, that's right, I hate them and now I am starting to hate
> my car! Anyone want a S6 with 51k miles? Take it please. Not
> really. So as previously posted, I am having some vibrations
> (making a humming noise) coming from my front end. (993
> carrera calipers, S6+ rotors) It almost sounds like a wheel
> bearing, but it is not. It is the pad hanging up on the
> rotor. I replaced my aluminum brackets with RS2 steel
> brackets with some custom made spacers. Nothin'.  I called
> Dave Jones (he has seen this, however only on URS6s, not on
> URS4s), he said to file down the leading edge of the pad,
> well, tonight I did that, nothin'. The sound (which I can
> feel vibrations in the steering wheel and floorboard)
> actually got worse. My next step is to turn the rotors, then
> move them left to right, to reverse the direction of the
> slots, which are now facing away from the direction that the
> rotor is spinning (I've seen both ways) . If this does not
> work, its new brakes time. I am thinking 996 turbo calipers
> over Porsche rotors. How does this work? Do you need a new
> hat (not for your head silly)?
> Anyone have any suggestions???? PLEASE?????????
>