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S£/R32/cupra brake fade
RedRobin:
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The dust shield is there for a reason - You don't really want loads of (?)corrosive(?) brake dust everywhere.
182_blue:
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--- Quote from: 182_blue on August 16, 2009, 04:03:35 pm ---for me it just didnt stop me in time, and they are easily cooked, theres only one piston on them so i just dont think they are up to alots of abuse
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would track spec pads and braided hoses have fixed that maybe.
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maybe would have helped a bit, but they wouldnt look as good :laugh:
DaveB@Vagbremtechnic:
--- Quote from: RedRobin on August 16, 2009, 06:47:51 pm ---^^^^
The dust shield is there for a reason - You don't really want loads of (?)corrosive(?) brake dust everywhere.
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The shield is there to prevent stone ingestion into the calipers, which prevents disc damage. There was one B7 RS4 guy over on RS246.com who had a stone in there for over a month before the pads wore down and eventully the stone came into contact with his disc which got toasted at a replacement cost of £600!
monk:
Intresting read this :smiley:
I (ATM) run R32 setup and it is really good and thought I did'nt need anything else..It was then K03
As a k04 I knacked a brand new set of discs at the ring recently(running DS2500's) by doing 2 laps off the trot and not letting them cool down.Never suffered brake fade just obviously got too much heat in the 345's (which weigh a bloody ton!)
So is there a 2 piece disc setup with R8 calipers from Audi that will bolt straight on?
Janner_Sy:
By knaclered i presume you warped the discs? That also answered the question about DS2500 pads on the R32 setup, as noone seemed to know of any dstributers for them.
makes sense about the dustshield, I just want to cool them down. Maybe i could run some ducting from the front grill to blast on the brakes from inside the wheel arch. Mine were so hot after one lap yesterday youcouldnt even touch the front alloys as they were so hot.
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