MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: GTIjames on February 23, 2009, 11:40:05 am
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been after a better set of brakes for some time and came across these on balance motorsports website, seem to get good feedback across the pond and were a cheaper option than brembo, alcon and ap the other brands i had been considering.
had to wait a few weeks for delivery as they came from the US but finally arrived the other day and hopefully getting them put on this week :jumpmove:
good service as always from julian at balance
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stoptech bbk - 4 pot calipers with zinc slotted discs and steel brake lines
think they look pretty good imo and feel well made, red calipers is what i was after to keep it looking oem
not looking forward to bedding them in the instructions tell you to accelerate to 60mph then brake to 10mph not just once but 10 times in a row :rolleye:
more pics and a some feedback as soon as they are on,
hope you like
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I likey a lotty :happy2:
For the bedding in just drive down the M6 about about 4 oclock in the afternoon, its exactly as per bedding in instructions. :drinking:
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how much if you dont mind me asking? brakes are my next mod :smiley:
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I hear they're very good, what disc size did you go for?
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thanks for the kind words
disc size is 328x28 - should be adequate for my needs and should hopefully fit 18" wheels without spacers
found this on another forum dont fancy fitting myself but looks good once on .
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3721312
price wise was not cheap as with all bbk's but should not come to more than £1300 all in and fitted :happy2:
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Perfect size IMO for a fast-road set up, caliper looks beefy too!
He's mentioned using a 10mm spacer to clear an ET54 wheel in that thread, doesn't say how much clearance was actually required, it may have only required a couple of mm but he wanted a hubcentric and they're 10mm+.
What I'm getting at is it might be worth a quick double check??
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im not the most technically minded when it comes to all this clearance and ET values, but I think that chap on the other forum was fitting to 17" wheels - if this makes a difference
i asked stoptech and they got back to me with a stencil i print out to help me work out if they fit or not but you have to take of the wheel off... not had chance to do so - but they said with 18s it should not be a problem
anyone know the width of the oem brake caliper?
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Looking good. An essential mod on a tweaked ED30, the standard brakes are just dangerous with 300 ponies running through the front wheels. Also that seems like a good price for such a decent kit. Let is know how it performs :happy2:
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Nah, wheel size is wheel size, you can't alter that.
The offset is key here, it's down to us running an unusual ET51, so the clearance between the caliper face and back of the wheel can be tight. The lower the ET, either on the wheel or combined using spacers determines how much further it sticks the wheel outboard from the hub. So an ET51 with a 10mm spacer makes it an ET41, make sense?
They can sometimes build this into the bell to change the offset too by making it thicker. Take a wheel off and offer up the disc and caliper to see how much room there is to play with?
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Is the black metal housing in the center rust proof? My Brembo's are rusting in the middle and it winds me up every time I look at them.
Is their a way to protect them?
Neil
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you wont be disappointed with the stoptechs. A mate of mine has the same setup on his mini and they have serious stopping power. He has also been running the m for the past 2 years with no problems whatsoever :smiley:
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wakey wakey, time for brakey.........NICE looking anchors :happy2:
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they look the bizz. looking forward to installed pictures! ;
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im not the most technically minded when it comes to all this clearance and ET values, but I think that chap on the other forum was fitting to 17" wheels - if this makes a difference
i asked stoptech and they got back to me with a stencil i print out to help me work out if they fit or not but you have to take of the wheel off... not had chance to do so - but they said with 18s it should not be a problem
anyone know the width of the oem brake caliper?
They look very good.
Where are you based? Brakes are relatively easy to replace.
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These wheels are 17"s with an offset of ET54. Should be able to figure out if a spacer is required.
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Thanks for your help mate, I am running just stock ed30 18 pescaras.
The chap on the other forum used 10mm spacers don't want to go for that as I am already running my coils quite low.
I am based in south London and park on the street so its not easy to jack the car up and whip a wheel off, will have to go to a garage
Is there any way of working it out without the wheel off?
Thanks again
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James,
Using this calculator http://www.1010tires.com/WheelOffsetCalculator.asp (http://www.1010tires.com/WheelOffsetCalculator.asp) and inputing the known wheel with clearance (ie ET54) in the pic, and then adding ET51 (Std Ed 30 wheel)
You will have 3mm more clearance than the Vortex chap had. He had to fir spacers (10mm) to get the required clearance. So you will need to fit 7mm spacers, to achieve the same clearance he had.
Might be worth a look without, but without seeing what clearance he achieved with 10mm spacers, you will not know for sure until you fit the brakes.
Hope that helps.
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Thanks for that mate, not too clued up on this side of it
Think I'll risk it both hurdy and rr fitted ok I believe with 18s and the r32 set up is quite beefy too, fingers crossed
Thanks again :happy2: