dukes
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Ive heard you can fit brembo calipers and discs from RR Sport...has anyone done this? and she was like no way and I was like, way
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 20th Jan 2008 8:18 pm |
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countrywide
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It's in LRO magazine this month, costs about £800 but is a simple thing to do. You have to change front calipers, discs, pads and backplate, on the rear I think it was discs, pads and backplate.
You also need the 19" wheels for it to fit the calipers.
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| 20th Jan 2008 8:22 pm |
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dukes
Member Since: 15 Oct 2007
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any good off road though!? and she was like no way and I was like, way
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| 20th Jan 2008 8:24 pm |
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countrywide
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No idea, I don't think they mentioned off road but apparently on road stopping was fantastic. Useful article though as it shows how to get to the brake drums and adjust them for the EPB.
The calipers look good through the wheels though.
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| 20th Jan 2008 8:31 pm |
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cmyers_uk
Member Since: 10 Apr 2005
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Sorry havent got the mag are you serious for £800 I could put brembos on my D3? If so did they point out where you can buy them etc.
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| 20th Jan 2008 9:49 pm |
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Ken
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| 20th Jan 2008 9:52 pm |
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countrywide
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That's what the magazine quoted, they even gave the part numbers of all the parts you needed and also the torque settings for all the fittings. I will look but I presume it is £800 for the parts, so if you didn't do it yourself labour is probably on top.
Remember you need the 19" wheels for them to fit though.
I will find the magazine and give you the details.
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| 20th Jan 2008 9:52 pm |
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AndrewS
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dukes wrote:any good off road though!?
Well if Land Rover fit them to the RRS which is designed to go off road. I would say yes  In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
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| 20th Jan 2008 9:55 pm |
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countrywide
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Do they go off road then 
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| 20th Jan 2008 9:56 pm |
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cmyers_uk
Member Since: 10 Apr 2005
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Countrywide, Thanks Ive got 19's and would be happy to do the job myself. I will pop out tomorrow and buy the mag. I had ruled this out thinking it was around 3K but for £800 its seems like a plan.
Cheers
Chris
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| 20th Jan 2008 10:10 pm |
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simonsi
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cmyers_uk wrote:Countrywide, Thanks Ive got 19's and would be happy to do the job myself. I will pop out tomorrow and buy the mag. I had ruled this out thinking it was around 3K but for £800 its seems like a plan.
Cheers
Chris
The 800ish price was for parts that inc the S/C rear discs and new caliper brackets to fit the existing rear calipers over the S/C bigger discs, so the price for the front Brembos must be less by some margin (maybe 100GBP for the rear brackets, discs and pads??).
Better brakes is better brakes, doubt very much if many non-comp-safari off-road motors would find the std brakes stressed off-road though. Braking is all about dissipating kinetic energy, this goes up with the square of the speed, so twice the speed = 4x the energy to dissipate.
I was lucky enough to find a set of VG used Brembos and discs so they are going on this Wed. I´m not too fussed about just upgrading the fronts as lower braking efficiency on the rear relative to the front is inherently stable and the ABS/DSC will stop anything locking up and generating a skid in any case, I´ll trial the front-only solution before deciding whether its worth upgrading the rears. The set I have came off an RRS that was only upgraded at the front with seemingly no issues.
The article is good, even gave you the torque figures for all the bolts  Cheers
Simon
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| 20th Jan 2008 10:37 pm |
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dukes
Member Since: 15 Oct 2007
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fronts only sounds like the way to go as 75% of braking is through the front is it not? would you want to ruin those lovely shiny calipers off-road though? and she was like no way and I was like, way
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| 20th Jan 2008 11:22 pm |
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neo
Member Since: 16 Nov 2005
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FWIW/IMHO;
ISTR that the ABS/DSC (?SLABS?) maps for RRS/Brembo are different to standard, so it might be as perfect as the proper factory job.
But, I have considered this and the ins. comp. didn't seem to fussed and I think having the Brembo logo is quite cool.
But then, I would. The M-Power Express
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| 20th Jan 2008 11:28 pm |
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dukes
Member Since: 15 Oct 2007
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wat! and she was like no way and I was like, way
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| 20th Jan 2008 11:32 pm |
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simonsi
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dukes wrote:fronts only sounds like the way to go as 75% of braking is through the front is it not? would you want to ruin those lovely shiny calipers off-road though?
I´m afraid I use the D3 capabilities on-road only (seats, towing, space etc). My previous D2 had the same usage for nearly 200k miles, had the JE big brakes on the front and no instability issues at all, those were 346mm discs, somewhat smaller than the 360mm discs used with the Brembos on the RRS
The harder the braking the less braking the rears are able to do due to weight transfer, so nice light braking may be 50:50 or close (driven mainly by the static weight distribution of the car/load), emergency both feet braking may be 90:10 to the front.
Donkeys years ago my Fiat 127 rally car could just about lift the rear wheels off the ground when running intermediate racing tyres on tarmac so I guess that was 100:0  in pre-abs days there was nothing we could do to limit the rear brake bias within our budget and still pass an MOT so locking the rear(s) happened under some circumstances Cheers
Simon
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| 20th Jan 2008 11:35 pm |
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