Porsche Brembo 996 BBK conversion

[Nick_P]

I was talking to them up this until Wednesday, with sad news 😔 I’m must say they will be not offering any race pads for this application until further notice, as they have lost their supplier.


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That sucks, I was considering going with a Porsche Brembo setup so I could fcpeuro rotors and pads. Decisions decisions...

[Radekxpl]

Good stuff, I went Textar street and DTC-60 for track


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Nice, I’m not fan of dtc-60 the performance is great but they ruined my wheels as soon it got wet on the the track not worth the headache IMO and don’t last long at all, there’s other pads out there with similar or better performance that are user friendly.


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[DvSkD4]

Good stuff, I went Textar street and DTC-60 for track


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[Radekxpl]

Well shoot ... no more Hawk?! I just bought some a few months ago when I installed this Porsche setup, don’t see them listed anymore.


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No more Hawk as well, The good news is if you bought Hawk in the past they will warranty then I bought Dtc60 while back and they will source them for warranty only.


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[DvSkD4]

I was talking to them up this until Wednesday, with sad news 😔 I’m must say they will be not offering any race pads for this application until further notice, as they have lost their supplier.


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Well shoot ... no more Hawk?! I just bought some a few months ago when I installed this Porsche setup, don’t see them listed anymore.


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[elbert]

If anyone has any general questions about the products, I'm happy to answer but really I'm here as an enthusiast with an E46 M3 myself.

Any chance Girodisc will make a 2-piece floating rotor for the E46 M3, especially one that works with these Porsche calipers?

[Radekxpl]

Does anyone have any news/ updates in terms of fcpeuro offering track pads for this setup? As of now it seems that ferodo ds2500 is the only “track” option

I was talking to them up until this Wednesday, with sad news 😔 I’m must say they will be not offering any race pads for this application until further notice, as they have lost their supplier.


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[Nick_P]

Does anyone have any news/ updates in terms of fcpeuro offering track pads for this setup? As of now it seems that ferodo ds2500 is the only “track” option

[SWRT_M3]

Would anyone happen to know if the rear calipers can fit a rotor 32mm wide? Is there enough room with fresh pads?

The pads won’t allow a 32mm thick rotor. Based on my previous tinkering, I used a front rotor which is 28mm thick, and the pads make contact with the vane part of the rotor. I’ll try to take pictures later on today.

Without the pads, the 28mm rotors fits fine, plenty of room on both side, so if you really want a 28mm rotor, maybe you could grind down the pads a bit.

[r4dr]

There’s definitely not enough room for 32mm rotor, the only other option you might have is to run a 996 gt3 caliper with polar bracket that will allow you to run thicker rotor but not sure still about 32mm, why 32mm in the rear ? that sounds unnecessary overkill stock is 20mm most people opt for 24mm in the rear, by any chance did mean the front maybe 🤔 as that’s common thickness for the front?


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I'm using the Megane RS Brembo calipers up front and I've confirmed they can only fit a 30mm-thick disc. I'd like to run 345x28 in the rear, but I was wondering if a 355x32 would fit. Right now I'm tossing around the idea of 360x30 up front (E9X M3 size) with 345x28 in the rear (D737 swept height matches the Brembo disc annulus perfectly). Front and rear diameters would go up by around 4-5% front and rear while keeping everything else constant so I don't think it would throw the bias % off by any noticeable amount compared to a Megane RS front/996 rear setup with 345/328 ZCP rotors. I still have to do the math though.

[Radekxpl]

Would anyone happen to know if the rear calipers can fit a rotor 32mm wide? Is there enough room with fresh pads?

There’s definitely not enough room for 32mm rotor, the only other option you might have is to run a 996 gt3 caliper with polar bracket that will allow you to run thicker rotor but not sure still about 32mm, why 32mm in the rear ? that sounds unnecessary overkill stock is 20mm most people opt for 24mm in the rear, by any chance did mean the front maybe 🤔 as that’s common thickness for the front?


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[r4dr]

Would anyone happen to know if the rear calipers can fit a rotor 32mm wide? Is there enough room with fresh pads?

[SpaceJockey]

Rear calipers with allegedly 40k miles arrived. Dust boots look good. Gonna test the seals soon. The original plan was to just slap the calipers on, but given the meh condition, I’m gonna spend $30 to do a DIY refinish. Will be trying to somewhat match the StopTech fronts, so I’ll be using VHT engine enamel Nu-Cast Iron, red Brembo stickers, and engine enamel clear. Would prefer a matte clear but VHT doesn’t offer one.

Can't wait to see how those turn out.

[SQ13]

Rear calipers with allegedly 40k miles arrived. Dust boots look good. Gonna test the seals soon. The original plan was to just slap the calipers on, but given the meh condition, I’m gonna spend $30 to do a DIY refinish. Will be trying to somewhat match the StopTech fronts, so I’ll be using VHT engine enamel Nu-Cast Iron, red Brembo stickers, and engine enamel clear. Would prefer a matte clear but VHT doesn’t offer one.

[Radekxpl]

So far had very good experience with stoptech seals and dust boots, just recently refreshed my calipers had about 50 track days on them everything was looking just fine, on my prior rebuild used them as well and everything was good as well, can't say I had bad experience with them can't complain