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VW Racing Big Brake kit product review
Janner_Sy:
The important thing here is to seperate objective and subjective opinions.
The pad wear is an issue but is it something directly related to soft pads on track cars with heavybraking thus easily solved? Maybe rotating the calipers will solve it, idont kniw. I've asked a few times on here
MAT ED30:
Thats what I am thinking too ds2500 on a track with slicks or even track rubber will get get chewed up badly I would think hence why they look so bad,so maybe some better pads in and then see what happens but I don't know much about brakes and dave does so I can only say what mine have been like over 20k plus of driving on the roads and I still have loads of pad life left and even brake wear so I can only go by that :smiley:
tony_danza:
Matt's kit clearly works, the VWCup runners kits clearly work. Maybe it's slightly different and they changed the road version, I don't know? And DS2500s are fine until you overheat them, then they melt like butter and you'll have no pads. Simples. They're not really a track pad, they certainly are not a race pad.
It isn't fundamentally a bad road kit, the big pot leading is wrong and a bolted disc isn't ideal, but for 90% of people (pending the pot issues) it'll be perfect.
For the other 10%, you wanna play racecars, you've gotta pay racecar money. Just buy the best... look at any decent race/rally series, they're not running "pretenders", brakes win or lose races. AP, Alcon or Brembo at a push, as their consumables are vulgarly priced.
The thing is, most people can't justify AP/Alcon/Brembo money - which is where a good VWR kit will come in. I hope they get the issues sorted and the 4-pot is a good 'un.
MAT ED30:
If they did not work they would not be on the race cars and the drivers would say get them off the cars they don't work surely :confused: or don't the guys paying for the cars get a say in anything on the cars?
tony_danza:
I'm just talking about the road kit, Matt - surely there's something odd about it?
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