Ceramic brakes!

[ricola]

Wally,
Any idea when you will be in a position to try them out? Looking forward to the verdict!
Rich

[Wally]

Originally Posted by ricola

Wally,
Any idea when you will be in a position to try them out? Looking forward to the verdict!
Rich

Well, the car is still with his *ss up in the air awaiting the further modified tranny and an engine.
I have bled the brakes and the disks and calipers are very nice aligned right now (which was a big question mark at first too!).
There is a 1/4 mile track meeting on May 18th over here, so I hope to have tried and tested the brakes by then. Maybe just with a stock 2 liter engine (the riechert one) first as the turbo engine may take a tad bit longer to be completed.

I actually think these rear brakes will be less brake force than the 304x32 disks and M030/928S front calipers I had before. These yellow rear ones up front really have smallish cups (30/28 iirc), even compared to the 993 rear calipers (34/30) I have in the...rear
Hence the installation of the Tilton brake bias valve I have installed now with the new set-up. Depending on the bias, I may even use smaller rears (964 C2's?) afterwards.
I did think this through just a little bit you know

[dub_crazee]

lookin great nate i cant wait to see the verdict

Thanks for the info on using the 2 pot 964's btw. ive just finished my rear conversion and only needed 1,5mm spacers for the caliper in the end! my mate made them from aluminium too

[Wally]

Recently I was finally able to drive a few hundreds meters round the block with the 'new' engine and also tried out the ceramic brakes.
Unfortunately, one disk probably had been flaked too much and/or turned down too little. Anyways, the new pads were eaten alive by that disk. I have never seen so much brake dust in all my life: even the fender was covered with brake pad dust!
Within a few blocks, the pad of one side of one disk was totally gone. What looked like a smooth disk was now a rough landscape again. Too bad, as the other disk was perfectly fine and so were the pads. Even though I proved you can machine these disks, too much flaking will not be possible to remedy totally. For this one bad disk even I feel more machining is not safe anymore, so the project will end here
Well, if you never try s/th new, you will always get the old same results.

Anyways, to be able to go to meetings this summer, I looked and found a steel replacements: Its 330x28 and comes from the rear of a 996 turbo/ C4S or 997S or turbo.
The ones I found are from a very recent 2007 997S and basically only need the caliper to be adjusted for heigth, which is very doable.
New pads (Texstar) arrived today, so the bug will be able run again this weekend