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APR/Race Developments Stage 4+ 700hp+ TTRS Build
chrisr763:
As above. Keep it coming! Saw one of these at edition this year oh my.
I hate this time of year for cars. No point In having your shiny nice wheels on unless you plan of referbing them! And it's too cold to do anything productive! Anyway, rant over about winter. More drooling over the TTRS!!
Poverty:
Not being happy with the stock brakes, I turned my attention to the calipers.
I settled on a set of rs4/rs5/r8/gallardo 8 pot calipers married to the stock 370mm discs. This gave a big performance upgrade IMO and greater confidence whilst on the brakes. You can brake really really late now repeatedly and just general throw loads of abuse at the brakes with no real fade.
I chose mintex1155 pads, originally intended as a stop gap till I had funds for the £550 pagid yellows, but Im so impressed by them especially considering their price (£220) that I now stick with the mintex pads.
The stock discs may be 370mm but they are non directional so one side always gets hotter than the other, and had a tendency to warp real easy with the stock 4 pot calipers. With the 8 pots a set of discs now lasts a pad life. They do still warp, just not as easily. I will have to address the rotor issue in the future.
I also bought some new braided brake lines, castrol SRF brake fluid and I bought mintex 1155 pads. A friend machined the "revo" plate for us so the pads would sit on the oem disc properly.
chrisr763:
They look amazing! Bet it feels good to be able to stop on a penny! :P
Tfsi_Mike:
Lovely anchors :party:
Cupra R:
Jase
What did you do with your std calipers?
You fancy selling them?
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