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look what I got.
« on: November 21, 2011, 08:35:28 pm »
Arrived this afternoon, I've already got them hanging in the garage degreased, etched, and now in red high temp paint to match the rear OE ones. Lacquer tomorrow ready for fitting on Wednesday.

They are a Forge setup, 8 pots with a 356mm x 32mm 2 piece rotors, they only had one set produced (although i believe they are made by K sport) so these are the only Forge 8 pots that exist to my knowledge. 

If anyones interested my 345mm S3 set up will be available from wednesday (for sale post to follow as soon as i have the pics of them off the car)





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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2011, 08:39:43 pm »
look who got a deal on ebay    :happy2:
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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2011, 08:43:42 pm »
Very nice so are all the Forge brakes K Sport?

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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2011, 08:45:44 pm »
look who got a deal on ebay    :happy2:

Ssshhhhh, i dont want to piss off potential S3 brake buyers by letting on how much i paid for them  :laugh:
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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2011, 08:47:23 pm »
Wait till you replace the disks. We won't be jealous then :wink: :grin:

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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2011, 08:50:44 pm »
Nice buy,heard you get a bit more pedal travel with these

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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2011, 09:02:30 pm »
Google is our friend :signLOL:

Did you seriously only pay that much for them?

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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2011, 09:04:14 pm »
Very nice so are all the Forge brakes K Sport?

I wouldnt like to say, but before buying them i did some research, and the pads that fit them suit some AP calipers, and the K sport 8 pots, having looked at the AP's they are cast, where as the K sport are billet like the ones i have. K-sport also do the same groove pattern as on these discs and in the same 356mm diameter.
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« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2011, 09:04:53 pm »
Google is our friend :signLOL:

Did you seriously only pay that much for them?

YEP  :smiley:
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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2011, 09:07:00 pm »
Wait till you replace the disks. We won't be jealous then :wink: :grin:

True they arent cheap, but as they dont work as hard and are thicker material they tend to last a bit longer than the stockers (speaking from experience). These are like new, when i contacted forge they told me that they had covered less than 1000 miles on a demo car.
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« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2011, 09:09:21 pm »
Nice buy,heard you get a bit more pedal travel with these

Forge said thats not the case as its one of the questions that i asked, i got the impression that the reason they went down the 6 pot route is that the 8 pots will only fit under 19's where as the 6 pots might fit under 18's.
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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2011, 10:19:01 am »
Nice price you paid for those, was wondering how much and so had to check  :grin:
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« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2011, 10:52:27 am »
Nice price, beat me by £30 haha! Tbh I'm not to fussed to about my brakes so thought I could justify that much but you won and still got them as a bloody bargain well done ;)

Will look nice, get some pictures now they are in red ;)
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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2011, 12:45:43 pm »
They look alot like the k sports I had on my evo.

The rotors and bells are exactly the same! If you want some serious pads in there look up carbontech xp8 pads, or xp10's if you fancy ripping your face off!!

I had my 8pot 356mm kit under 18" wheels aswell.
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Re: look what I got.
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2011, 12:57:59 pm »
I may be right in saying that K Sport stuff doesnt have a dust seal so make sure you get them off and keep them uber clean once in the summer and twice in winter, piston corrosion will be your problem not disc replacement, the rotors look like AP items anyway, cant tell the PCD but they look like CP4542-106/107's

The brakes are cheap to buy but expensive to maintain (Like a HP Printer!)

At the price you paid I'd have bought them myself but ask yourself why Forge didnt continue with them.....I dont think the reason you mentioned isnt too valid really, you'll get any 6/8 pot on a 356mm disc inside an 18" theres no way you'll get them in without a wheel spacer in either case especially on a 32mm wide disc

Nice buy,heard you get a bit more pedal travel with these

Forge said thats not the case as its one of the questions that i asked, i got the impression that the reason they went down the 6 pot route is that the 8 pots will only fit under 19's where as the 6 pots might fit under 18's.

Piston sizes look fairly good for an 8 pot should get a half decent pedal with these