Review: K sport 8 piston 355mm big brake kit (front only)

[MR2]

I had 355mm's under the Stock 18" Chromies! (see first post) there would not have been enough space for 360mm rotors from how damn close it was (without shaving) More info on fitment:

To explain what your seeing about the closest kit to what would be ideal for my car is one for a 911 Porsche, this allows the porsche to retain the use of 19" wheels while getting larger disks and calipers (as discussed earlier) of importance I've also cut out and attached the Rotora's recommendation for the GTO's brake upgrade in theory showing us how much clearance the GTO has for calipers as stock and (the bit I like) giving me a rough estimate as to how much more the 12 pot caliper might stick out into the spokes over the stock or The Rotora 6 pot solution.



The GOOD news is the 12 pot Caliper sticks out 9mm LESS than the 6 pot caliper, this should allow the the wheels to be pulled in by another 5 mm (A good thing) still have not measured the Ksports though...

Anyone able to measure how far out the caliper sits from the top of the Brake rotor Hat? (as per diagram?)

Appendium: I just measured the K sport 355mm calipers, and they stick out by 40mm(so A: 40mm, B: 200mm)

Going to make a fitment card now first out of cardboard then MDF



And the Sexyness I'm looking at all of the colored rubbish will be painted in high temp black (even the pad backings) please note that the rotors have two surfaces, sloted or slotted + drilled, considering our earlier discussions the slotted are the obvious choice.

[IPD]

sure you can fit 355 rotors on 18" stock wheels. the question is if you can do it with stock 2g tt front calipers. i'm going to emphatically say no. even IF you can, you'd have to do some grinding. iirc, we're talking about 315mm stock 2g tt front rotors. 355 is a HUGE upgrade for those calipers to swallow.

[MR2]

Oh! that's what he wants to do..

Don't bother dude, getting/trusting the brackets to extend your calipers out another 2cm would be my issue, just get the SCE Wide calipers...probably work better than all the solutions I've tried so far!

These babys http://supercar-engineering.com/sc2/...roducts_id=135

[MR2]

Currently I'm now looking at what I can do Rim style...I'm 80% sure that my current 19x8.5" rim will fit, but I need something way wider...9.5" to 10" wide preferable.

Linea Corse Veneto look good, need a clearance chart..:

http://www.wheeldude.com/catalog/pro...oducts_id=6311

I still like the BMW M5 Replica's, again need wheel fitment chart:

http://www.modbargains.com/BMW-M6-St...ica-Wheels.htm

Or the Good ol Rota P45r in 19x10:

http://www.wheeldude.com/catalog/ind...th=335_336_402

[GTOJOE]

Oh! that's what he wants to do..

Don't bother dude, getting/trusting the brackets to extend your calipers out another 2cm would be my issue, just get the SCE Wide calipers...probably work better than all the solutions I've tried so far!

These babys http://supercar-engineering.com/sc2/...roducts_id=135

I thought stock rotors were 32mm not 30???

[MR2]

http://www.stealth316.com/2-brakeupgrade.htm

it seems stock is 30mm.

[MR2]

An Update to this, I've just purchased replacement Rotors, the new rotors are considerably larger with somewhere near 9mm of Metal each side of the vent..

New: 32mm (9mm+ 9mm + 14mm vent)
Old: 32mm (7mm + 7mm + 18mm vent)

exact measurements tonight. (will weight them too)