Turbo Front brakes

944Turbo · Aug 29, 2023

The 944 brakes certainly need pushing harder than many over servoed modern cars, they should work fairly well though. My coupe has Big blacks and EBC yellow stuff - they squealed comically until I got some proper heat into them (black flagged at Donnington and sat there with them smoking for 2 minutes while they came over and told me I was being too noisy - exhaust was popping as I changed gear under the noise sensor). Yellows wear slower than Red / produce less dust and work better and are fine on the road after cooking. I have some yellows to try in the Yaris at some point not because the standard ones are lacking but because I won them (that has 356mm disks from the factory though which is pretty big for a fairly light car).
Tony

blade7 · Aug 30, 2023

944Turbo said:
The 944 brakes certainly need pushing harder than many over servoed modern cars, they should work fairly well though. My coupe has Big blacks and EBC yellow stuff - they squealed comically until I got some proper heat into them (black flagged at Donnington and sat there with them smoking for 2 minutes while they came over and told me I was being too noisy - exhaust was popping as I changed gear under the noise sensor). Yellows wear slower than Red / produce less dust and work better and are fine on the road after cooking. I have some yellows to try in the Yaris at some point not because the standard ones are lacking but because I won them (that has 356mm disks from the factory though which is pretty big for a fairly light car).
Tony

Big blacks are the same as Big reds, 928 GTS and 993 turbo brakes aren't they, so you have uprated brakes? I've never braked hard repeatedly in my Cupra R estate with 370mm discs, but the brakes are in a different league to anything else I've driven. And I'd love that braking performance in my Turbo.

944Turbo · Aug 30, 2023

Standard in the Cab, which is the only one I have driven recently! Coupe is uprated and with additional cooling, but was also running with c350BHP and often with sticky tyres when on track.
Tony