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VW Racing Big Brake kit product review

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DaveB@Vagbremtechnic:
Already on it Matt, been asked half a dozen times.

The advantage of float in the bell is that you can use rotors deigned to be bolted such as the VWR ones

Plan is to ditch the VWR bell and replace it with my own design and mate it with the CP4015 bobbin kit

Won't be cheap but it will give some more headroom, problem is nobody will cough for the part number or make of the rotor, I suspect they would rather avoid that. Theres little point charging somebody £300-400 quid to convert it if the rotor is of dubious origin


--- Quote from: MAT ED30 on February 19, 2012, 10:19:02 pm ---Maybe vwr should look into a floating disc setup then judging by the pad wear you guys are having on track

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Matt it's nothing to do with the rotor it's the caliper that is  on upside down........

I know the VWR logo on the bell is like a cuddle blanket to some. but it really does need to go for track work

@mikeRoberts

Where's that pic of you at Oulton with the red hot brakes, can you post it up to demonstrate floating vs bolted

MAT ED30:
The vwr logo is a sticker  :signLOL: it was http://www.caparoapbraking.com/ who made the brakes and I thought made the discs

Janner_Sy:

--- Quote from: DaveB1970 on February 19, 2012, 10:51:06 pm ---Matt it's nothing to do with the rotor it's the caliper that is  on upside down........

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From what I gather outright braking power isn't an issue but uneven padwear is because the smaller piston is located lower most on the caliper.

So does flipping the caliper solve it or is it crap full stop?  I can't see how flipping it would lose braking power and it should solve the uneven wesr rates, but then I dont know much about brake piston design lol

--- Quote from: MAT ED30 on February 19, 2012, 10:57:59 pm ---The vwr logo is a sticker  :signLOL: it was http://www.caparoapbraking.com/ who made the brakes and I thought made the discs

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That is exactly what I was told on frida.  Id also remove the sticker.

MAT ED30:
It was all made in house dave they had my car for it ie I  dropped my with them and they used it to design the brakes around the Pesci wheels and the pro race that I had on the car

Janner_Sy:

--- Quote from: MAT ED30 on February 19, 2012, 11:06:53 pm ---It was all made in house dave they had my car for it ie I  dropped my with them and they used it to design the brakes around the Pesci wheels and the pro race that I had on the car

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Is yours the same kit as Steve's?  Only ask as maybe he has a race spec kit on there as it was the demo car

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