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almost to the point of having to select brake pads for my car.

I am running porsche 6 pot front calipers on 365mm rotors and porsche 4 pot calipers on 328mm rotors rear on a 1200 KG Z32

Racing will initially be sprints and car has 350-400 RWKW

I have looked at the ferodo 3000's but dont think I can get them hot enough quick enough for them to work properly.

Pagit yellows ( I like these)

Endless ( no idea which one )

Porterfield ( no idea about these )

Project Mu ( no idea about these either)

I would prefer a softer pad with less rotor wear. Requirements are to get up to temperature FAST and have a high co-efficent of friction because the cars brakes are unboosted.

Can I have peoples thoughts on what pad material in each brand would suit me or your personal experience with what you use?

Thanks

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G'day mate,

I use the SBS carbon ceramic pads on my GTR - after using them on my car for the last 3 years or so I can report that they are an excellent pad for sprints. From my experience they have great bite even when not fully up to temp and I have never experienced pad fade. The rotor wear speaks for itself - I am using the std brembo brakes and std rotor sizes with DBA5000's up front and have had the same front rotors on the car for about 3 years and only now are the slots getting worn away. This is with around 8-10 track days a year plus a bit of road use.

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almost to the point of having to select brake pads for my car.

I am running porsche 6 pot front calipers on 365mm rotors and porsche 4 pot calipers on 328mm rotors rear on a 1200 KG Z32

Endless ( no idea which one )

Project Mu ( no idea about these either)

Can I have peoples thoughts on what pad material in each brand would suit me or your personal experience with what you use?

Thanks

Hi Tektrader,

Which 6 pot and 4 pot Porsche calipers are you running ?

Are you running the 6 piston Motorsport Department Calipers like these ? ...

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... or one of the road car calipers ?

We have a lot of knowledge about the Porsche calipers and what works in custom applications etc. There is a page here with info about using Porsche Motorsport Department Calipers in custom applications ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/porsche_brakes.html

In terms of the Project Mu pad compounds and Endless pad compounds, we have very detailed pad compounds overviews for both Project Mu pads and Endless pads on our website, particular racing and competition pads, which may be of interest to you.

Our Project Mu Pad Compounds Overview is here ...

http://www.tunersgroup.com/Products/pmu_pad_specs.html

Our Endless Pad Compounds Overview is here ...

http://www.tunersgroup.com/endless_pad_specs.html

Hope that info is helpful :P

- The Tuners Group

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Those are exactly my calipers. I have been doing a fair bit of reading and are strongly leaning toward the Pagid RS14 Black

Now i have had a quick look at your site. What have you in the way of caliper adaptors for a R32 GTR that will suit these calipers? and for what size rotors?

I have managed t get a apir of 365mm Alcon rotors for a very good price and would like to use those.

lastly while I was test fitting pads the other day. There appears to be A LOT of extra width in these calipers when the pads are fitted . Looks almost enough to fit 40mm rotor in there. What is the design rotor thickness of these calipers? 32mm or 35mm ??

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Those are exactly my calipers.

Hi Tektrader,

Nice caliper choice - they're a beautifully engineered caliper.

You wrote above ... "I am running porsche 6 pot front calipers on 365mm rotors".

There is a version of the Porsche Motorsport Department 6 piston caliper designed for a 350 mm rotor and another version of the Porsche Motorsport Department 6 piston caliper designed for a 380 mm rotor. Are you running the caliper designed for the 380 mm rotors with a smaller diameter brake rotor ?

Do you have hats and caliper adapters designed and built to fit them to your car ?

Drop me an email to our email address listed here if you want more info about the various pad compounds available for those calipers or a general yarn about running those calipers on a GT-R and what brake rotors will work with them - we have a bunch of info on those calipers and what disk sizes they run ex-factory etc ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Contact_Us/

- The Tuners Group

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