VW Racing Big Brake kit product review

[xht20]

 :jumpmove:finally, tonight i will go on the highway and do a proper bedding, with 8 stoppings from 60mph to 10mph, and after cooling i will do some power braking to see if the wobbling dissapears completely. I'm thinking that after the brakes are heating, the wobbles desapears.

tomorrow i will go and do the geometry to the car (i hope this is the correct term). I've also mounted on the rear Goodridge brake lines along with the R32 brake setup. The stopping power is incredible, i've done about 60 miles of bedding till now.  

[xht20]

after doing a proper bed in of the brakes, i'm speachless. The stopping power is incredible. I'm loving these brakes. The guys from VWR + Caparo are the best for the quality of the products, and the patience they had with me in solving my problems. Hats down in front of them 

[jabbalad]

Glad your pleased with them and you finally found your problem, The quality of them is second to non, and after trying the earlier project MU setup i can say that VWR went the right way for sure. 

These have so much more power and feel then the MUs 

[MAT ED30]

100% agree with jabba they are awesome. It's nice to have a kit 100% made for our cars

[DanGB]

Which pad fitment do they run?

[MAT ED30]

Which pad fitment do they run?

ds2500 or i think its the 3000 too for track abuse  i do know some of the race cars are running ds2500 on track too to see how they got on and after i had a good chat with one of the drivers he was very very happy with how the brakes are with them  in as he thought he had the race spec pads in 

[DanGB]

Have you got a price of the replacemnt pads for these? My AP 6 pot fitment pads are £260 for DS2500's

[MAT ED30]

nope will find out when the time comes

[Teutonic_Tamer]

Any further updates on these - pad & disc wear, replacement prices etc?

[Msportman]

Have you got a price of the replacemnt pads for these? My AP 6 pot fitment pads are £260 for DS2500's

How much!!

Just £55 for my 280mm MK2 16V....that's one of the main reasons I went back to a MK2...nice and light for track use.

Been there before with big brake set ups which are lovely until you do a few track days and have huge costs in replacing discs and pads.

I agonised over spending a further £6k on my Edition 30 to get it track ready. Even on stage 2 with Clubsports and track rubber (Dunlop DO1J's) it was still 2 secs a lap slower than my valver.

[tony_danza]

Bloody hell, my Alcons ranged from £80 for EBC sh*t to £160 for Pagid RS29s when it came to pads. Seal kit was about £20, bolt/bobbin kit around £50, rotors £400+ the vodka... I never managed to wear a set of those out either.

[Janner_Sy]

How long do a set of these aftermarket  2 piece rotors last?  I do about 8000 miles a year, and about <1500miles of which will be trackdays.

What's the going rate for replacements.  Had a look on VWRs website  but there are  no prices.  Also are vwr your only port of call for replacment rotors or are there other options onthe market

[MAT ED30]

Done over 20k plus on mine still got loads of pad life and disc life

[SteveP]

While the brakes perform well in terms of stopping power and have good road manners there is a flaw in the way they eat pads.

Due to the bigger piston deploying first you get very uneven pad wear as I found when mine failed at spa.

On side of the pad was down to the metal and the other had serveral mm left. This was after 3k road miles and 4 track days.

NeilM's pads were the same, does the same on the race cars in VW Cup too.

[Janner_Sy]

 

That's a bit crap isn't it.  Do you know if that's being changed at all?

3k road miles and a few trackdays is not really alot of mileage.  So eating an entire pad is horrendous.  Which pads steve?

How come yours and neils have done that but Matts haven't?  Are they the same setup or do you just 'use' yours more than him