[s-cars] Which Big Brake kit

Fri Sep 23 10:10:19 EDT 2005

Yep, smaller piston first. I think it is so that the pads don't taper as
much. You can really see it on motorcycle brakes when there is an insert
to remove the piston through the back of the caliper. 
Mike

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Sorry for the confusion.

About the leading/trailing, doesn't the disc have to pass over the
smaller piston first and then the larger piston?  (Someone else here
(you, Larry?) mentioned that to me before).

Dave

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From: Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com>
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Sent: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:24:44 -0400
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Which Big Brake kit

I can't remember if the UrS does a leading or trailing brake setup.
IIRC, you will have to swap the crossover pipes from the left to right
calipers and run the "Porsche left" caliper on the "Audi right" side and
vice versa. 

IIRC, you don't want S8 rotors for RS2 brackets- you want '00+ D2
chassis A8L rotors. S8 rotors are 345x30mm and A8L rotors are 323x30mm-
the A8L are more in line with the original 993tt rotor- 322x32.

Taka

On 9/23/05, hoog23 at aol.com <hoog23 at aol.com> wrote: 
I've been going through the same dilemma for the past year...  What a
headache.

I originally tried contacting bira but after a couple of emails I never
heard anything back from them.  It sounded like I would have had to wait
until they had enough people interested to make a run of brackets. 

So I ended up buying euro a8 rotors at ECS and having billzcat1 make me
a set of brackets (and SS lines) for 996 (ala sys 3).  Once the brackets
arrived (a few mos later) I then found a pair of used black 996 calipers
(for $500!).  A few weeks later I then found a set of new calipers
(boxster S = red) for $650 from brandywine porsche and bought those and
was able to sell the used set for $500.  Textar pads cost me about $120.

So everything is sitting in my basement and now that fall is here I'm
thinking of letting them sit until next spring.  From my research I know
that I need to swap the vent lines but I'm still not sure if I need to
swap the left and right calipers when I do the install. 

Total spent was about $1150.  You may save some money if you can find a
used set of calipers.

As someone mentioned, your best bet may be the rs2 bracket (alex at
europrice) and 993 tt calipers with s8 rotors.  Also, as someone
mentioned, the price of the 993tt calipers (used to be able to get them
for about $300 each new) have gone up considerably.  Crescent City
porsche (if they still exist) used to run specials.  They have them
listed on their site for $299 still but the page is very very old.  The
last dealer that I spoke to who had a special on them was Brumos Porsche
- although I don't see the special listed on their site any more.  May
not hurt to call Brandywine either. 

If it wasn't for my wife seeing the $1500 charge on mastercard I kind of
wish I just went the ecs kit route - although I believe that I may have
a little more clearance flexibility with the 996 calipers.

Dave 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Curran <tony.curran at sympatico.ca>
To: S-Car-List at Audifans.Com < s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:46:53 -0400
Subject: [s-cars] Which Big Brake kit

So I'm planning a big brake upgrade. Must fit under stock 16" wheels. So
far 
only found one vendoe, that being ECStuning Stage 2 at $1500 for the big
black kit.

E-mailed Richard of Billzcat1 2 weeks ago but haven't received a reply.

Looked around at others but they can't match ECS for price. Are there
any 
others comparable to what ECS are offering?

TIA

Tony
96 S6

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