Rojer's 200T

[bvnditi]

Yeah that's the same size mate uses.

Duly noted.

In that instance, just don't strap Wilwoods to your 200T and you're mint then basically.

 

[Cub.]

Lol.

No offence, but doing a few laps of the ring road at midnight, is not a comparable experience to running a car on track.

It’s also, frankly, childish.

 

[RustyMojo]

Can only think it's the tiny pads they use.

Both guys I know who were at CSF in Porsche and BMW both use RPX and get on really well with them.

Presumably you mean Foxy? I was on RP1’s mate

 

[bvnditi]

Lol.

No offence, but doing a few laps of the ring road at midnight, is not a comparable experience to running a car on track.

It’s also, frankly, childish.

Whole reason I'm now moving onto track stuff and have an instructor session booked at Curborough.

The use was a little bit more protracted than that and comfortably away from civilisation, but aye

 

[Cub.]

Whole reason I'm now moving onto track stuff and have an instructor session booked at Curborough.

The use was a little bit more protracted than that and comfortably away from civilisation, but aye

Enjoy curborough.

 

[JamesBryan]

Presumably you mean Foxy? I was on RP1’s mate

Yeah mate, him and Tom in the E46.

 

[Ph1 Tom]

It's not the calipers as such. It's the pad surface area. A bigger surface area doesn't wear as fast.

The older Wilwood like you had generally had quite a small surface area compared to most calipers, even OEM ones.

Larger surface area reduces the pressure and temperature and this reduces wear.

The newer Wilwood range Aero4/Aero6 are equal or larger than the equivalent AP Racing or Alcon pads. I'm actually looking at a set for my M3.

 

[bvnditi]

Bloody good to know, and shall enjoy Curborough.

So don't buy ancient Wilwoods with tiny pads and strap them to your 200T, basically.

Also massive apologies @Rojer as I have unintentionally derailed the everloving s**t out of your build thread with my poor caliper choices

 

[Brigsy]

Pbs are pretty dogshit from experience. As i said before, get some ds1.11 in there. Expensive, but last for ages and actually work great from cold unlike most performance pads, so road friendly.

 

[Ph1 Tom]

Bloody good to know, and shall enjoy Curborough.

So don't buy ancient Wilwoods with tiny pads and strap them to your 200T, basically.

Also massive apologies @Rojer as I have unintentionally derailed the everloving s**t out of your build thread with my poor caliper choices

It's more matching the swept area of rotor and pad to suit the vehicle and what you're using it for.

And matching the piston area of the caliper to the master cylinder.

A lot of people put 4 or 6 piston calipers on but actually reduce the amount of braking force because the piston area is lower than the standard calipers. Bigger discs only make up for so much.

 

[YorkshireKyle]

@Rojer if you wanna buy a set of Megane brembos then let me know

I'll do you a CS discount. I've got loads of old track pads too x

 

[Louis]

Lol.

No offence, but doing a few laps of the ring road at midnight, is not a comparable experience to running a car on track.

It’s also, frankly, childish.

Proper boring you

 

[Andy P]

I ran CL RC6 after upgrading from the CL RC5+ @ Bedford 2 weeks ago & I was really impressed by them.

Gave me a lot more confidence. Bloody hated driving home with them though, 3.5 Hours of squealing on every roundabout

 

[Touring_Rob]

EBC RP1's are brilliant anyone who says otherwise hasn't tried them, or had shitty brake fluid.

I've run 2500's, PBS, 1155's, Green/Yellow/Blue ebc and CL's over the years and the RP1's have wiped the floor with them all in terms of feel, fade resistance and life.

Rojer years ago I was of the opinion that rear brakes on things like Clio's did nothing, in fact I had a heated debate with @frayz about it however I was incredibly wrong! You need matching fronts and rears to maintain balance, the pedal and brake feel goes to absolute s**t if you're running road pads in the rear and something good at the front.

Also change your brake lines, not fucked old brake lines should be near the top of the list.

Glad the tyres worked well, I was going to txt you and ask.