Treating her to a little tlc......

[mattCSLnut]

mattcslnut has this set up and I think has even been on the track with it, he may pop along and chime in ;-)

CHIME ! :-D
Indeed I do... I've had this set up now for well over 2 years and 15 000 miles 50:50 Road:Track use... in excess of 100 laps @ the Ring and 10 + UK Track Days. Infact it was the UK Track Days that highlighted the weakness of the OEM CSL brake set up :banghead: even though I was already running HOT pads, SS braided lines & ATE Racing Blue fluid with the OEM set up on my Cecil. It was the UK TDs alone that made me go for the Pork. DIY BREMBO BBK.
The biggest problem I found with the OEM HOT set up was lack of feel & the On/Off on track nature of the brakes, very imprecise with very little modulation or trail braking possible.
What the DIY Pork BREMBO set up offered me was not only a bigger pad, but also brake feel / finesse :thumbs: ... not to mention weight saving around each wheel :smokin:
As for back to back comparison with APs ... without a shadow of a doubt the APs are the Daddy :supz: of BBK world having experienced them on a CSL first hand :beer: however I'd say that a well set up Pork BREMBO BBK on the CSL is about 80-90% of the APs performance for less than half of the initial £££ outlay with much lower consumable costs :supz: OEM CSL front discs are about £150 each & a full set of semi decent pads is about £160 all round :smokin: Ideal for Captain "Tight Wads" like me :-D

[73CSL]

THANX mate... I've had him saved in my eBay "Favourite Sellers" folder for a while now :smt023
BTW I'm not a big fan of these brackets he sells which require machining 5 mm off the BREMBO callipers :smt009

what brackets did you use for your conversion ?

This looks an interesting set up I'm going to make a note of for the future Its only the issue it migh invalidate my warrenty that I've not done a BBK conversion yet

[mattCSLnut]

what brackets did you use for your conversion ?

This looks an interesting set up I'm going to make a note of for the future Its only the issue it migh invalidate my warrenty that I've not done a BBK conversion yet

One off custom "MOVIT" inspired brackets which do NOT require any BREMBO butchery
I've not had any Warranty issues with mine :thumbs: Over 60K miles and brakes are not covered by Warranty anyway.

[sjb]

Porschecalipers.co.uk and CA Automotive both do front and rear mounting brackets but I think there is some machining required to all to get them to fit... it can't be difficult to manufacture some that are 100% bolt on as Matt has shown :beer:
To be honest it doesn't bother me though, I love a bit of tinkering in the man cave sorting issues like that out :-D

[jay2020]

I have just spent the morning fitting my porsche brembo kit.
Even though I said id keep her standard!

I purchased boxster s calipers from a 2003 car for £500

I also purchased 12mm spacers for the rear 15mm for the front.
Brackets were the issue, I purchased front brackets from creation motorsport, DONT DO IT!!!!! I spent more time machining them and filing them then trying to find 6mm spacers than I did on the job.

They are easily the worst piece of engineering ive ever seen.

I then decided to do the rears at the same time so purchased rear brackets from porschecalipers, they were excellent.

I also used HEL hoses and ATE blue fluid.

the brakes are a world apart from the oem crap :

[sjb]

You can't beat some sexy red calipers behind a nice wheel :smt055

Interesting to hear the porschecalipers.co.uk rear bracket works, turns out my rears are 1.5mm out with regards to centralising the caliper over the disc and need 3mm extra height for the calipers to sit off of the disc rim :whistle: I may just buy the porschecalipers ones instead of all the faffing of machining and spacers :whistle:

[jay2020]

Forgot to ask, what's all this maching the caliper malrky??? Didn't need to do that on mine!

[sjb]

Certain brackets still require the mounting 'pads' on the caliper to have 5mm or so to be machined off to bring the caliper down towards the hub..... god knows why it's easy enough make a bracket without doing this!

[jay2020]

Just avoid those brackets and the sh1tty creation motorsport ones I bought and youll be o.k.

[mattCSLnut]

I have just spent the morning fitting my porsche brembo kit.
Even though I said id keep her standard!

I then decided to do the rears at the same time so purchased rear brackets from porschecalipers, they were excellent.

I also used HEL hoses and ATE blue fluid.

the brakes are a world apart from the oem crap :

:thumbs: It's a slippery slope Did you remember to flip & swap your rear callipers "Left to Right" to avoid uneven pad wear ? :whistle:

[jay2020]

:thumbs: It's a slippery slope Did you remember to flip & swap your rear callipers "Left to Right" to avoid uneven pad wear ? :whistle:

No I didnt, whats the actual difference?

[sjb]

Smallest piston should be at the bottom. Chances are the rears will be ipside down. You flip them and swap the bleed nipples and link pipes end for end :thumbs: