[s-cars] Boxster vs. bigger brakes

[Cody Forbes]

FYI, WorldPac stocks all 3 sizes of A8q rotors:
8E0 615 301R - 312x25mm (used w/ ATE calipers) list price of $100ea or 
$175ea when cross drilled Zimmerman brand both ways
4D0 615 301J - 323x30mm (used w/ Lucas calipers) list price $140ea Zimmerman
4D0 615 301B - 345x30mm (used w/ Brembo calipers, I assume this means S8) 
list price of $140 Pilenga brand.

If you know somebody with a WP account (any local Euro shop for sure) and a 
friendly you can likely get a decent discount off that list price. Since I 
have an account and buy at wholesale I can get them for pretty cheap for 
myself.

As for calipers, yeah you are right that those are cheaper. New Porsche 
calipers are about $150 more each. I was planning on used Porsche calipers. 
I had considered Apikol brackets instead of making my own.

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From: "Big Brake" <bigbrakeparts at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 2:20 PM
To: "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: Boxster vs. bigger brakes

> Because the price for one new padless caliper is $191 delivered when I
> bought them in 2008 from gmpartsdirect.com
> 323x30 A8 rotor is available in any auto parts store. Even with CNC
> operator charges on top of parts total is still less then any BIRA (or
> other) closed design identically sized kit.
>
> One may argue that of the shelf RS2 brackets, used Boxster S calipers
> and odd sized European only rotor is cheaper but I wanted new and off
> the shell local parts only.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
>> Ok, why did you choose this caliper over all of the other options out 
>> there?
>>
>> -Cody
>>
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>> From: "Big Brake" <bigbrakeparts at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:51 AM
>> To: "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
>> Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
>> Subject: Re: Boxster vs. bigger brakes
>>
>>> It is Brembo, made in Italy.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looks cool. Why did you go that route instead of Bembos?
>>>>
>>>> -Cody (mobile)
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 6, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Big Brake <bigbrakeparts at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Everything exists when you have a mill and a lathe ;-).
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I would highly recommend doing what I did. Can share my drawings
>>>>> if you want. However fitting under 16 inch would be a big challenge.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://picasaweb.google.com/bigbrakeparts/UrS4CTSVCaliper
>>>>
>>>
>>
>