[RS777]

Pretty impressive performance for road tyres and around 700hp on a stock motor with restricted torque.

 

[terminator x]

700hp with standard brakes! The standard ones can't handle 400hp ffs!

TX.

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[RS777]

https://m.youtube.co...h?v=L5wjb8Vtfwk

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This wasn’t the one I originally found but for some reason it’s not on my post after I added it.

[RS777]

700hp with standard brakes! The standard ones can't handle 400hp ffs!

TX.

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First of all I want to say I will personally be getting the lightest AP Racing callipers and discs possible in the near future to save weight. The thing I also wondered is why people feel oem brakes aren’t good enough. Is that based on track driving and getting brake fade after loads of hard laps?
I stand to be corrected but I thought if you had say a 1500kg car going 70mph it would take the same brake force to stop it whether it has 50hp or 500hp.
I guess if on a track snd you had more hp you could get to a higher speed before needed to slow down for a bend and would heat the brakes up quicker.

Edited by RS777, 01 July 2021 - 09:13 PM.

[RS3Dell]

Stu.

As you say same weight at the same speed different brake horse power same brake set no difference.

I see it's all about deceleration from acceleration where bhp comes into it if you get my meaning.

With more speed you need to scrub off the more energy you putting into the brake discs/pads.

In my case I went from the stock 4 pots to the later 8 pots for more clamping pressure/pad area which then means I will put more energy into the pads/disc so now I'm running a trackday pad with a floating disc set to cope with the heat.

Dell.

[terminator x]

I had APR's on my RS3 which were night and day different to the OE brakes. As you say for track days really as you are stopping from higher speeds and hard on the brakes each time.

TX.

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[flybynite]

I think on the road BHP makes a big difference to brakes because you get to higher speeds each time you accelerate out of a stop or bend, the cumulative effect is to be stopping from higher speed than a lower power car.

 

I prefer to have the car go round bends comfortably at speed so I don't need the brakes 

[RS777]

I’m looking into some AP Racing brakes currently matched to a set of carbon ceramic discs. AP put me in contact with a dealer that specialises in this so let’s see what they cost. Racing line do a set which cost £6600.