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Offline Daemon

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R32/S3 rear floating discs
« on: July 03, 2011, 04:23:55 pm »
Hi guys,

I've just done the R32/S3 rear brake upgrade so I weighted the discs, the result was about 16kg a piece wich is kind of heavy.Is there any possibility to get floating discs? does anybody make some? I guess you can shave about 5-10Kg wich is a lot for us time attack guys.Less is more right ?:)

DaveB a little help please


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Re: R32/S3 rear floating discs
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2011, 11:53:19 am »
It's impossible for the rear 310mm discs to weigh that much. The fronts are about 11Kgs/piece. Rears should be like 7kg/piece !
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Re: R32/S3 rear floating discs
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2011, 10:09:38 pm »
What about RS4 rear discs?

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Re: R32/S3 rear floating discs
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2011, 10:32:15 pm »
Or RS6 rear discs.....at the behest of the 450-500bhp TTRS chaps, just done these you need around £1k and alloy rear hubs but works and fits well.




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Re: R32/S3 rear floating discs
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2011, 10:36:18 pm »
Are they C6 discs Dave?

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Re: R32/S3 rear floating discs
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2011, 10:17:20 am »
2003-2005 so C5 I think.

It's win win, the TTRS chaps are uber weight sensitive, even with the adaption there's no weight increase, the disc are directional and sort of floating.

Even though it's a heavy casting, the OEM 310mm disc won't take much heat so you're sort of limited to a DS2500 pad really, the better disc allows RS29's in essence the next group of pads up.

The TTRS caliper carriers are required they're different to R32/S3 ones