jase1 Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 All, After a fairly poor response to my last post im trying again. There must be some of us out there who have had to replace our discs and pads and some people must have gone down the drilled/slotted route. If so cany anyone advise best place to source these from. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mook Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Depends on your budget and whether you want to go for a big brake upgrade, Jase. A couple of us run the ECS Tuning brakes, some Stage 5 (Cayenne Turbo calipers with 14.1" cross-drilled and grooved disks), others running cross-drilled replacement disks, like Dan32. Try www.ecstuning.com distributed in the UK via www.jbrperformance.co.uk I run Stage 5 front and Stage 2 rear and have tried four different manufacturer's pads - Red Stuff from www.ebcbrakes.com are by far the best with this set-up - they never, ever fade. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan32 Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Think the poor response to your post was mainly due to the limited options for replacement discs. There are eBay versions of our discs available in drilled and slotted but from what I have heard, they are poorly made and when drilled, create weak points which could fracture under harsh conditions. ECS seem to be the only reliable OE size disc manufacturer but they are a pain to get things from. Its also not a cheap way of sorting your brakes. My setup cost over a grand and the stage 5 Mook is referring to costs considerably more than that - something to consider as in approx 20-30k miles time, you will be replacing to the same spec and cost. I think Tarox also have a kit that works with our cars, but I may be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jase1 Posted December 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Depends on your budget and whether you want to go for a big brake upgrade, Jase. A couple of us run the ECS Tuning brakes, some Stage 5 (Cayenne Turbo calipers with 14.1" cross-drilled and grooved disks), others running cross-drilled replacement disks, like Dan32. Try www.ecstuning.com distributed in the UK via www.jbrperformance.co.uk I run Stage 5 front and Stage 2 rear and have tried four different manufacturer's pads - Red Stuff from www.ebcbrakes.com are by far the best with this set-up - they never, ever fade. HTH Stage 5 would be awesome but cant really justify, i think the standard brakes are very good just want to improve the look and on the odd occasion they have faded would like to cure this. Looking on ECS website there are 2 standard size brakes one with black centres and one without. As far as i can gather the black centres are lighter. They seem to mention the HAWK HPS pads, anybody used them? JBR website doesnt list the non black centre type ones, will contcat them for price. Thanks [/ QUOTE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decked Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 I used the Hawk pads on my setup for about a month.... They are ok, they do the job but I moved onto the Red stuff pads (thanks to Mook) and I haven't looked back. I haven't tried anything else apart for the rock solid OEM pads! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helfinger Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 [ QUOTE ] All, After a fairly poor response to my last post im trying again. There must be some of us out there who have had to replace our discs and pads and some people must have gone down the drilled/slotted route. If so cany anyone advise best place to source these from. Many thanks. [/ QUOTE ] Tarox do replacement r32 disc....give Awsome gti a call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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