Ideal brake set-up?

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: John Sims

....Unless you change the struts.....

Idiot! Obviously I meant hub assemblies. [&o]

 

[edh]

ORIGINAL: John Sims

ORIGINAL: edh

.....You can also buy a kit from Rennbay that will fit under 15's (do you still have 15's on the S?) - http://www.rennbay.com/944-big-brake-kit-p-83.html .....

Oh Wilwood! Shudder, shudder. [:'(]

..from the man who liked EBC greens.... [8|] []

AFAIK Steve Bassington used these on his orange 924 turbo & they worked OK - I have no personal experience with Wilwood, but I'm sure 944man will be along in a minute with the definitive answer []

 

[Fen]

I was put off them years ago when a set I was involved in were flexible. I sort of consider Wilwood like the Lidl of brakes.

 

[Neil Haughey]

Interested in the alternative proportioning valve from the 928, have any of you guys fitted this and did it do a good job?

 

[Peter Empson]

Just been looking for some good pads (for the 944S in fact) and found an ebay seller that has Porterfield AP372 pads which fit the 250T front calipers (medium blacks). They work out at £115 including shipping (ex vat etc) so the price hasn't gone up as much as I'd have expected, the advert is here.

 

[bennyboy]

Chaps, if my car is an '89 with M030, should I be ordering the 944 Turbo S/SE braided hose kit from Goodridge? Thanks

 

[Fen]

Probably, but different people mean different things by Turbo S and SE (I don't think either were official in the UK). All '89- Turbo would be the same though.

 

[Big Dave]

Ben.
How is the caliper attatched to the brake pipe.
On M030 equiped cars there is a short metal pipe from the caliper to the strut. Then a rubber flexi brake hose.
If non M030 then its a rubber hose from caliper to body...
What im getting at is the "Goodridge" hoses will be different lengths, for different aplications.

 

[Fen]

Are you sure? I'm certain my Turbo had the metal pipe. Are you thinking S2 with smaller brakes than a non-M030 250 Turbo?

 

[944 man]

ORIGINAL: edh

ORIGINAL: John Sims

ORIGINAL: edh

.....You can also buy a kit from Rennbay that will fit under 15's (do you still have 15's on the S?) - http://www.rennbay.com/944-big-brake-kit-p-83.html .....

Oh Wilwood! Shudder, shudder. [:'(]

..from the man who liked EBC greens.... [8|] []

AFAIK Steve Bassington used these on his orange 924 turbo & they worked OK - I have no personal experience with Wilwood, but I'm sure 944man will be along in a minute with the definitive answer []

I dont have a definitive answer Im afraid. Some models are available with dust seals now, so constant rebuilding wont be neccessary any more; but I havent been able to establsih whether the flexing problem has been addressed.

Simon

 

[edh]

This looks an interesting idea

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/944-turbo-and-turbo-s-forum/480959-big-red-brake-upgrade-without-the-red-interested.html

- using the larger diameter disc with spaced out standard 250 calipers. I'm guessing it needs a 17" wheel to fit.

 

[Big Dave]

ORIGINAL: Fen

Are you sure? I'm certain my Turbo had the metal pipe. Are you thinking S2 with smaller brakes than a non-M030 250 Turbo?

By saying M030 i was refuring to the type of caliper. As they are used on the M030 cars, aswell as some turbos..[ But its amazing the number of people who think a "turbo" front caliper is something special, just look on e-bay at the number of so called turbo front calipers for sale, most are the "S2" sized.[small blacks]..].....
If you want i can refure to them as "medium " blacks, but then that starts to realy get confusing....[][][8|][8|]

 

[Peter Empson]

ORIGINAL: edh

This looks an interesting idea

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/944-turbo-and-turbo-s-forum/480959-big-red-brake-upgrade-without-the-red-interested.html

- using the larger diameter disc with spaced out standard 250 calipers. I'm guessing it needs a 17" wheel to fit.

Thanks for the link Ed, sounds like an interesting idea.

 

[TTM]

ORIGINAL: Big Dave UK.
On M030 equiped cars there is a short metal pipe from the caliper to the strut. Then a rubber flexi brake hose.

Are there any aftermarket (braided) hoses going directly from the brake line attached on the shell to the caliper?
These two metal pipes bother me as my Moton struts don't have the bracket to hold them.

 

[sawood12]

I'm sure the normal Goodrich braided hoses will be fine, you'd just be deleing the metal pipe. The connection at the caliper end and the body end should be the same.

 

[Big Dave]

If you want to connect without the small metal pipe, then just order the standard hose kit. IE NON M030...

 

[TTM]

Really? Last time I looked the threaded hole in the caliper were not the same size between non-M030 and M030.
Maybe I need a new pair of spectacles [8|]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Big Dave]

Well thats what ive done on my car...+ it all fits together just fine..

 

[Fen]

Isn't the hard metal pipe there for cooling the fluid? That was always my understanding anyway.

Dave - I know what you'd mean by medium blacks as would some others, but it might well be confusing overall.

 

[TTM]

ORIGINAL: Fen
Isn't the hard metal pipe there for cooling the fluid?

I think so, but since the 928 S4/GT have the same "medium black" calipers and make without these additional metal pipes I would believe they are not essential.