A4 Brakes

["Bertenyi, Tamas" <Tamas.Bertenyi@nrc.ca>]

Phil Payne wrote:
... There was an A4 in BR Motorsport a few months ago...

The mtmA4 in question was actually featured in Performance Car 
magazine (June issue, I think) along with a 320hp MTM S6 (ah, garcon, 
I'll have one of those, please). Elsewhere in the issue they had a 
lovely review of the S8! But I digress. The mtm A4 was a non-quattro 
A41.8t Avant, the most noteworthy feature of which was the shocking 
retinal-scarring yellow paint job and matching yellow cam cover. All 
in all, a rather good article and high Audi-content issue.

One of the cars had massive 13.8 in rotors. For a guy with 14 in 
wheels, this was rather demoralizing. The calipers used were, as Phil 
correctly stated, a 6-piston unit taken from the Jaguar XK220! Braking 
performance was, to put it mildly, adequate. Personally, I think the 
paint job was selected to fuse your retina to the back of your eyeball 
so that they wouldn't detach under spirited braking.

Of equal interest, the other car had a high performance AP brakes 
which might be a better option for those interested in increasing A4 
breaking performance.

As a side note, BR Motorsport are the official UK importers of mtm 
cars and were featured prominently in the article.

Tamas Bertenyi
-scratching his head and wondering if that 320hp 20v S6 engine would 
fit in his 90q20v