Ok....
firstly sincere apologies for the delay.....
Coming up on the second year of Vagbremtechnic Limited, still havent done a website, over 500 kits of various descriptions supplied to date and I've still got holes in what Id like to supply for a price that I know people would perceive as good value.
I read on here people with a stage 2/2+ GTIs/R's/S3s and theyre very quick, having soken to many of you over the last 6 years I would guess that one in ten of those cars would see a race track, 5 out of 100 would see a race track regularly. I think theres a cutoff whereby a full on BBK needs sorting together with the rears to bring balance and a overall dynamic upgrade....the TTRS being the case in point....I think that point on a Mk5 Platform car is around 400BHP..... in which case fast road or track get a BBK
The other trigger point that I think exists is suspension, there seems little point in spending 2 months salary on AST's finest with remote reservoirs and 10 way adjustability to hang heavy OEM brakes off them.
One other point is that some people just like an OEM look...
Up until now the only real pads for the R32 setup which may have held their own on a trackday or repeated fast road driving on a staged car would were M1144.... DS2500s wont cut it on anything except mild fast road...
So a bit of background, my company is a third owned by the largest AP Racing dealer in the EU, we also supply pads, LOTS of pads, the parent company doesnt really do retail unless you're Beddie or Dan GB! without turing this into a huge advert we supply Pagid RS and many many more pads even manufacturing for one well known manufacturer. S3 Gaz (Butler) has had the tour
So my point being we've got good lines of supply, the BTCC teams have had a huge amount of success with Project Mu pads, there were three compounds homologated H16, H19, H21
The H21 was the compound that most of the BTCC teams we supply run, it ticks a lot of boxes and most importantly lasts the race. The H16 compound is a really interesting one its got huge bite, got good wear rates, its also quiet and low dust.............you can probably see where this is going...
So in the majority of cases
Do you
Really
Need a
BBK?
So the NQS got done, it has much merit, it ticks a lot of boxes, lightweight, cheap consumables. I'm aware the disc size puts a lot of people off even though it performs well and gives a good pedal.
Ive never been a huge fan of the R32/S3 setup but I found myself out in a Rocco R about three months ago and was pleasantly surprised that for a stock setup they felt progressive-ish and had little pedal travel. its very popular so it got me thinking what we could do to make it a little more successful on a track day and fast road
So with the NQS coming in now (even with the cheap ebay brackets copied from my design....) at around £850 I thought there may be may be something we can do with the R setup.
We've got quite a bit of pull with the pad manufacturers so an email got fired over to Japan and to cut a long story short we've had 10 sets of R32/S3 pads made in H16. they took 4 months
If its a success we'll get some more made, these are the only ones on the planet right now.
Alex has got some in stock, Ive sold a set and he's sold a set. For Project Mu they're cheap but for what we're all used to paying they're expensive. They retail at £312 plus VAT but I can guarantee nobody will pay that.
Alex's customer has teamed them up with some straight grooved Brembo S3 discs and with some hoses and fluid I'm sure it will feel very very good indeed.
These are race pads, we've carried them for TTRS and the Gallardo/RS4 8 Pot caliper with hugely fantastic feedback for a while now. If you've already got the R32 setup on the car then its an opportunity to get some BTCC quality stopping for a fraction of the costs of say a VWR setup.
Dont forget which part of a BBK actually does the work.
They have come with the clip on the outside pad so they will work on the R32 setup as well as the S3 and R Kits.
This compound is currently being run on a lot of time attack cars, its powerful and gets to temp quickly.
It seems like im never in the UK at the mo so if anybody wants to talk it through, Alex has got some and Stevey Statller has a couple of sets on the shelf too
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