Brake discs (again)

alfatwo

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There is also someone doing 3200 clutches too as Sachs have run out and are not producing anymore.[/QUOTE]

There's a perfectly affordable 3200 clutch kit David Askew and myself were working on just before his accident four weeks ago...
It's now on the back burner until he recovers..

Dave
 
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alfatwo said:
There is also someone doing 3200 clutches too as Sachs have run out and are not producing anymore.
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There's a perfectly affordable 3200 clutch kit David Askew and myself were working on....[/QUOTE]

Two milk bottle tops and a clothes peg? ;)
 
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Neil Surrey Labs said:
Ok I'm seeing my accountant next Tuesday to set up a little company to distribute the discs I will have made.
The discs will fit the fronts of the 3200GT 4200GT 550 Maranello and 456
They will be G3000 castings, Vented, Balanced and Drilled

Target price for a matched pair i.e. with the drill holes going the right way round both sides is £295 plus the P&P

With over 1000 3200GT and 4200GT on the roads I think this has got to be a good thing. It seems our cars have a healthy appetite for discs.
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Top job Neil!!

Will be back for some when I have very carefully worn out my existing 550 maranello items.
 
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Top job Neil!!

Will be back for some when I have very carefully worn out my existing 550 maranello items.
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Go for it Rob, in fact all of you go for it. Why not treat yourselves to a new pair of discs for Christmas. As soon as I've opened up a suitable paypal account for these I will be taking orders. TBH my Maserati needs fresh discs pretty urgently their just about done in.
 
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MIn will last a while yet - so need need to save a pair for me just yet. The new EBC yellowstuff are awesome in combination with the new disks. I think changing brand of pads in the past, on the same disk may not have helped with braking efficiency.
In combination with P-Zero Corsa tyres , I am cock-a-hoop with the handling and stopping. Like having a new car!
 
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Neil Surrey Labs said:
excellent. Im looking forward to having a beautiful set of new discs and redstuff pads on the car.
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DONT go for REDSTUFF, they are shocking and dangerous. I did hear they changed the compound but I would much recommend YELLOWSTUFF as they are very, very good.
 
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Yes they have changed the compound, the original Red Stuff which I fitted and used were awesome, then they changed something and now back again..??
 
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How are they dangerous Conaero? and how would I check that they are the right ones? I bought them a while back and they were from a bloke who had never fitted them so they might be pretty old.

I have 2 choices with these. I could either just sell them on.
Or I could fit them to the existing discs and see how they perform. Which of course instantly devalues them.
 
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Have Redstuff on mine and I have mixed feelings. Once warm they bte really hard (and squeak like a ****** too!) but cold they fade and are almost dangerous.
 
rs48635

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it's "only" about £100 for a set of yellowstuff.
AFTER you sail out into a junction, hit a parking bollard or crah into your own garage, ask yourself how much you would have spent on stoppers.
Save money where you can but, not on critical safety stuff.

Unless I were dead keen to sell on the redstuff, I would fit and test them. That way they get used or binned.
 
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Neil Surrey Labs said:
How are they dangerous Conaero? and how would I check that they are the right ones? I bought them a while back and they were from a bloke who had never fitted them so they might be pretty old.

I have 2 choices with these. I could either just sell them on.
Or I could fit them to the existing discs and see how they perform. Which of course instantly devalues them.
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Yep, echos the others, they were dangerous. Our cars spend there life blasting up dual carriageways, where the brakes cool, you then hit a roundabout and literally have no brakes and storm straight over, even if they have changed the material, I will never use them again.

Yellowstuff do seem the ones to go for that or Ferrodos.
 
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send a link of the ones you'd recommend.

AC Delco are supposed to be a pukker brand and look how cheap their pads are!!

They seem to be about the same as the set I pulled out of the fronts

And here is something very scary!

Used discs go to the recycling centre not ebay!! This is also the reason why I'm getting my own ones made.
 
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Contigo said:
No the Yellow stuff are the track pads.
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think it is the reds that are track phil. yellows sit in the middle somewhat between road and track I think.
edit: above wrong.......it i the blue stuff that is track not red, sorry folks
 
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