coddy2200

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Hi all.
Any advice on brakes for my trip to the Nurburgring in June?
I've got a 98 uk turbo with 2 pots on the front.....upgrade the disc/pads,
or swap to 4 pot calipers with ugraded discs/pads?

jasonius

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Believe it or not, but the 'ring' isn't that hard on brakes due to is sheer size and distance between corners. Unlike other 'normal' size circuits where you're hard on the brakes every few seconds, with no time for a cool down..!

Saying all this, the 2 pots really are crap, so an upgrade to some 4 pots would be a good track or not..!

stevem2k

know your limits , drive slower

4 pots + hoses + decent pads is never a bad idea though.

p1doc

braided hoses uprated fluid and new pads plus take a mate who can show you round and start slow
martin

Robin MY97Wagon

I went to the ring last year with 2 pot brake on my 97 turbo 2000 (stock discs and pads but new AP response fluid and braided hoses). Expect a lot of fade particularly on your first few laps when you don't have a clue where the track goes and you are overbraking. Having said that brake fade is predictable, so you can drive around it. The thing that was concerning me is being committed to blind bends only to come out of the other side to see carnage in the road with marshalls and needing to anchor up sharpish.

The best advice is forget about timing your laps and drive it like a good country road.

hades

For track work - IMHO 2 pots are pretty useless. 4 pots with uprated pads, hoses, disks, fluid etc are a league ahead and still going to fade quite quickly on brake intensive tracks. If you want to do serious track work (which you might not), skip the 4 pots and go straight to something bigger and better - e.g. Brembos, APs (or perhaps a godspeed kit for less £££) and ideally 330mm ish or bigger disks. For fast road / moderate track, go for 4 pots with uprated pads, disks, hoses and fluid.