[s-cars] Front brake research continues...

[Taka Mizutani]

Agreed with Dave- you're not going to be able to tell the difference between
993tt and 996tt brakes, all else being equal.

On the UrS, you can't beat Dave's suggestion in terms of price/performance.

Taka

On 2/8/06, djdawson2 at aol.com <djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hmmm... I challenge anyone to blindly get into 2 cars... one equipped with
> "big reds" and the other equipped with monoblocks... drive them, and then
> report on which one is having "caliper flex" problems.  I guess this may
> matter on some GT2 Porsche... but on our primarily street use S-cars, I
> doubt it.
>
> That being said... it seems like the most reasonably priced solution is
> RS2 adapters, late A8 rotors, and a set of big reds.  RS2 adapter
> replicas... $100.  A pair of new big reds used to be about $560 (don't know
> the current rate).  A pair of A8 rotors (323x30), about $200.  $860 to have
> big brakes seems pretty reasonable to me.
>
> I use this setup pretty hard, and it works really well... for me.  I guess
> YMMV...
>
> Dave
>