[V8] Fw: UFO Brake Conversion

[Ed Kellock]

I need to perform the Italian brake tune-up on mine.  In general, what do any of you do when you perform this procedure?

Also, I have the cheapo pads from Advance Auto.  I have a very slight problem with warpage, but I don't recall that from before with the stock pads that were installed by the dealer back before I bought the car.  Would pad choice affect the likelihood of warpage in any way?

Lastly, I am considering signing up for the Audi Club event at 2nd Creek in Denver next month.  I feel that I should do something about my brakes first though.  They'll be fine for many more street miles, but they may not be quite confidence inspriing for a track event.

I was thinking I would get some better pads, like Mintex Red Box (I believe the rears are due for at least pads as well) and I thought it might be a good time to replace the brake lines all around.  I thought I would just go with stock rubber lines and save the stainless steel braided ones for a later performance upgrade, if I choose to do someday.

What do y'all think?

Thanks,
Ed

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From: DasWolfen at aol.com
Date: 2004/04/29 Thu PM 03:05:50 MDT
To: David.Coleman at blackrock.com,  lundabo at msn.com, 
	baumanns at baldwin-telecom.net,  v8 at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [V8] Fw: UFO Brake Conversion

In a message dated 4/29/04 3:52:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
David.Coleman at blackrock.com writes:

> I last heard Audiconnection's Wilwood application has been shelved -- 
> probably due to Wilwood's temperamental street-use. 

Nope....lack of interest. Both test vehicles are still wearing their 
Superlite II's (over two years on each, winters in Northern VA, Philly, and Montana) 
with nary a problem.....other than a certain lister wearing out the first set 
of rotors.


 My experience/opinion of UFO's are the opposite of Bill's. I drove my UFO 
equipped V8 about as hard as you can drive a car on public roads and it made it 
to 159k on the original rotors. How hard is that? Well the last two years of 
its life I was going through pads at a rate of 2-3 sets a year. I warped them 
on a regular basis and an "Italian tuneup" never failed to straighten them 
again. 

 The absolute best G60 setup I've tried is on a customers 93 S4. Crossdrilled 
Zimmermans, Stainless lines, Hawk pads. They are fantastic...for exactly 1/2 
of my favorite ess curve, the second half of that ess becomes an excersize in 
terror in every G60 car I've taken through it at speed.

 In comparision my UFO V8 would stand on its nose in each half of that ess 
with no fade at all. I could get 20 or 30 miles into a good hard mountian run 
chasing Mark W's 91 5 spd before fade became an issue.

 Keith

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