What size disc is best to fit on Escort's,the wheels will be 18 or 19 inch,use will be fast road and maybe the odd trackday?
who uses what?
Mat

 

330mm 4pots,,, never had a problem!

bigger do look better though

 

How big is bigger Gareth?
what are the biggest that people run,Mike R etc
Mat

 

Dunno how bigs Mike R's discs are but here's a little video of them. Oh and they work very well

 

330mm & ap 6 pots here... nice..... work very well

to be honest mate .. get the best you can afford ...think martin hadland had 360mm discs under his mo's

 

i think sean runs the biggest,,,380 are they

 

might be the size of martins then ... couldnt remeber thats all .. think all the reyland boys had hoooge discs .....

 

Mike,are you there............................?

 

i run 360 and 6pots front and 330 and 4pots rear by hi spec under 18 rondells u can use up 2 382 on 18in mos

 

I run 380mm and 6 pot water cooled calipers

 

cheers lads,how much for the 360's and how much for the 380's
I feel a sit down moment any minute

 

about 1300 360s 1700 4 the 380s from hi spec bud

 

Nice one mate,anyone know prices for the above from AP?

 

Brembo 380mm x 36mm disks with Brembo 8 pot callipers under my MO's. Properly stops man.

Sean..

 

Sean's old AP 4 pots and 335mm discs.

Stops well enough for me!

 

I have to say (and i never thought i would say this) I am going to do some testing and I may downsize my brakes. I use the 380's on the front and 330's and AP 4 pots on the back.

I may go down to 330's and 4 pots on the front as well, simply for the weight saving.

I do like the fact that with the 380's and 8 pots it stops unbelievably well, better than any other setup i have had and my brake upgrades on the front of my car have been:

Standard Esc Cos - std rear
300mm disks with Hi Spec 4 pot callipers - big rear disks, std callipers
330mm disks with AP 4 pots - big rear disks, std callipers
356mm disks with AP 6 pots - 330mm with AP 4 pots
380mm disks with Brembo 8 pots - 330mm with AP 4 pots

But there is no getting away from the fact that the bigger they are the heavier they are as well. Gareth Lloyd runs 330mm disks and AP 4 pots all round and nobody questions his racing abilitys and he uses bugger off great 250mm wide slicks.

Mind you i think his car handles that well and he is such a good driver that he don't have to bother slowing down. The last thing I want is brake fade, having the 380's gives me sooooo much confidence as I know it will ALWAYS stop.

Sean..

 

330 AP 4-pots will be fine for your fast road/odd track day IMO. Cost about £1200.
Mine only fade on the track with slicks after several laps of trying to do endo's

Don't use the cheaper brake manufacturers, go for race-proven quality.

Newts

 

thanks lads especially Sean for all the info,maybe I will settle for 330's then
cheaper too
Mat

 

i run 362x32 6pots on my saffy they are the biggest i can fit on and 315x25 4pots on the rear

 

Rs Gus are these worth getting over 330's for fast road driving?
they cost a lot more,but will I need them?
have you used 330's before?

 

i had the 330's and they are amazingmate but the 362's are a diff world imo 330's are fine for the road

 

having never driven a car with uprated brakes then getting into gus's with 362 there's only 2 words F***ING AMAZING if i had the money theres no doubts this is what id buy

 

I also run a set of Seans hand me downs

I've got 355's on 6-pots and they are the bollocks

 

i use 355 discs with ap6 pots as mikes under 17inch mo's on my sapph and all i can say is they are the best value for money spent! My calipers will take 378mm discs under 18inch mo's so i might go that route,only snag is the turn in issues!

 

 

apart from you budget your rim is going to decide what you run!
I have a mate with 19's for his scort and he is looking to run a 400mm disc!

 

Just ordered my 6 pots and 355mm rotors from martin top bloke top price just wanna get em and fit them but might put on the coffee table for a few days to admire first

 

thanks lads,does anyone think that 330's will look small under 19 inch rims?
even though they are great I dont want them to look stoopid

 

here are mine

 

what size wheels are they mate
Mat

 

18"

 

but dont forget this is a 4x4 saffy with a et 35 ofsett not et15 escos where the dish in the rim is bigger

 

they do look cool though

 

Anyone got any of their 19 inch wheels with big discs behind them
Cossymad where are ya

 

Warren Kelly runs 19" rims on his Esc Cos and his car has 330mm front disks and I think they look fine. I've had a quick look and I don't have any pictures of his car showing the brakes, does anybody else have any pics of Mr Kelly's weapon???

Sean..

 

I got 330mm 4 pot APs on mine look at me avitar
thats on 18" wheels mind

 

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...yescbrakes.jpg

 

 

As per Sean,any pics of Warren's car?
Mat