ECS Porsche caliper???

[Gti Dave]

312mm ate power discs, porsche calipers, pads, braided lines - and rear ate's and new pads should cost you no more then $1500-1700 to do complete.



r32/s3 and also mk5/mk6 golf kits easy as well. 4-8 pot calipers front and rears..

Hey fuzion, thanks for that. Much appreciated. I personally would prefer to not go down the expensive AP or Brembo route if there was an easy and straight forward option as I won't be tracking my car much/if at all.
May I ask where you purchased your calipers from and new/used and for which VW/Audi model (assuming Golf mk4 or S3 or TT)? I assume if it was a complete new kit, the brake caliper mounting brackets were a perfect direct bolt on affair?

Cheers and thanks.

[clubbie]

Was told the porsche calipers are fine for road and track use but just require replacement of seals as they tend to catch fire/melt or something or rather from excessive heat produced on track days and hence need servicing and changing seals (not replacement of calipers). Apologies if I made a boo boo and didn't explain it clearly.

It is only the external dust seals that can catch fire in extreme circumstances. No big deal and the calipers/pistons do not need rebuilding or anything. If you are tracking the car and putting on semi comp tyres and pads you can just remove them for the day.

[seangti]

Just on the brembo's, when Wheels did the tuner special, that polo was running Brembo brakes, it was also the 2nd shortest 100km/h-0 stopping distance of the bunch, behind a porsche cayman if I recall correctly. It was 3+metres better than most other cars, porsches running carbon ceramics, HSV with $7500+ worth of brakes. Can't knock the effectiveness of them. But a porsche caliper must look better than a brembo.

[Lonewolf1983]

Just on the brembo's, when Wheels did the tuner special, that polo was running Brembo brakes, it was also the 2nd shortest 100km/h-0 stopping distance of the bunch, behind a porsche cayman if I recall correctly. It was 3+metres better than most other cars, porsches running carbon ceramics, HSV with $7500+ worth of brakes. Can't knock the effectiveness of them. But a porsche caliper must look better than a brembo.

thats due to the fact it was the lighest car in the field I expect...

[seangti]

thats due to the fact it was the lighest car in the field I expect...

very true, but that doesn't negate the fact it's pulling up a car length better than the majority. If you put that into a safety perspective, I recall reading old data about a car decelerating the majority of it's speed the slower it's going... (i.e. deceleration distance from 80-50 may be equivelant to 50-0). So that three metres could mean hitting an object at say 20km/h versus walking pace.

*Don't rely on my figures being accurate, but you get the idea*

Hope I didn't just take this thread off track.

[gtimonkey]

Fuzion

Your setup looks awesome. How do they go?

please share

[Gti Dave]

A quick final upddate and instead of going the whole way with calipers and all, I was over it after a long and hard think about how expensive this adventure would become. So, I decided to save some dosh and use that money to do more mods to the lil donkey and since I mainly do highway and country road driving and little to no track days, I decided to go for the slotted rotors and pad upgrade instead. Just got it all installed today so will report on it later after its all bedded in.