Ben26

Ben

gurnE

Not that fast, I destroyed one of them in the saph and the brakes probably cost more than the saph

Homer.

Am sure reyland or mike rainbird both are traders on here, could sort you out with a set of apracing 6 pots and hoooooge disks

Mike Rainbird

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Hi Mike,
Just done some quick research and the RS6 already uses a two-piece disc with alloy centre (front and rear), hence why the OE ones are so expensive.

However, the OE Pagid pads are too soft and catch fire if pushed hard (as you know ). My recommendation would be to bite the bullit and replace the OE discs, but go for the higher spec Pagid pads (not sure what compound, but if you ask here www.rs6.com they will be able to tell you the exact ones), braided hoses and some Castrol SRF brake fluid.

With this fitted, the brakes are good enough to drive round the Ring with no problems. However, you do have to adopt the "brake hard and for short periods" type of braking to protect them from over-heating, as the car weighs so much.

You can get replacement all steel discs, but they are a lot heavier and won't be as good as the OE ones (but will be cheaper, but will last even shorter).

dojj

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it's been a problem for almost all the car mags that tested the rs6
they all complained that the brakes weren't up to the job of stopping the car consistently after some high speed runs

there was a write up in top gear where they set fire to the brakes too

so i'd say mike was right in his thinking about the pads, but if you go for pads that don't catch fire, you have to go with the limited lifetime of the components

Mike Rainbird

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The Pagid pads are "disc friendly", it is just if you put too much heat into the discs you get a problem, hence the braking late, but HARD method of braking to prevent warpage.

Obviously the pads will wear out a lot more quickly with this method.

The other thing is to somehow remove 300kg out of the car .

gurnE

Couldn't give a shit if you believe me or not tbh.

I went round the outside of one on a roundabout trying to bait a Scooby.
the scooby wouldn't play but the RS6 glued himself to my bumper.

Traffic cleared on the motorway and from 70-150 I completely nailed him.

Saph Cossie 1250kg, 380bhp = 304bhp/ton

Audi RS6 1660kg, 450bhp = 271bhp/ton

What's difficult to understand about that

Stu @ M Developments

iTrader: (12)

Pub Figures.... that only tells what happens at 6200rpm... what about the other 4000rpm you both used?

Has to be said, would be hard to "Destroy" an RS6 with only an extra 30bhp too.... A little exageration maybe? Or he didnt try as hard as you did perhaps?

GARETH T

wheres tiff to defend the rs6 front

gurnE

As said, I know what happened and he was trying, he was no more than 2ft from my bumper for about a 1000 yards whilst we waited for traffic to clear.

30bhp added to 4x4 transmission losses and the much shorter gearing of my T5 I would expect as well.

Don't care if any believes me or not tbh, I was there.

The cossie was slow compared to the bike anyway

gurnE

I'll defend the RS6, it's a fantastic car.

Not the fastest thing on the roads by a long chalk though.

GARETH T

it was a joke mate,, i just know that tiff is inlove with them

if i was in a differnt position i would LOVE one to drive everyday

gurnE

Yea, I know Tiff has a liking for them, so do I.

I'd like one just like the one I beat.

A big red estate, looked absolutely mint (disappearing in my rear view mirror )

the new ones have got the Gallardo V10

GARETH T

the gallardo engine is in the S6,,, dont think they have made a new rs6 yet

there was a red rs6 avant on ebay last week,, its been on and off ebay a few times,, maybe he'll sell it to me cheap,,,, cheap cheap

RichardPON

What spec was your saff?

I was side by side with a blue RS6 avant down the M20 for about 5 miles, and I couldn't lose it whatsoever!

Mine was 330bhp 2wd.

gurnE

T34 0.63, Greys, BD10's, RS500 cooler, Mongoose, 32psi peak, 28 held

Porkie

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Not entirely true the Gallado has a slightly different version of the Audi S6 Engine if you ask me

Still bling though

GARETH T

ya you are right,,, the power is all different so i guess it got different head and cams

Porkie

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doh, TOO slow!

Mike Rainbird

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Don't you think you should sort the brakes first .

GARETH T

stu lists rs6 in his list

http://www.remapping.co.uk/

BEC_400

I totally believe you nailed the RS6,and anyone who says the driver of it wasnt trying against you. Would he really want an old Ford to kick his arse.hmmm.

All i can say is that my 400/400 4x4 is considerably quicker from 80-170 than my E39 M5 which incidentally has the same performance as the RS6!

dojj

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you're all whimps i dusted one of these

http://www.lamborghini.co.uk/?sectio...del=murcielago

in a 1.2 corsa away from the lights the other day

(ok, so he was in the left turn filter lane and the lights were red for him, but it still counts )

Anonymous

Stop press:

"Modded car beats standard factory car shocker!"

Stavros

gets on my nerves when people say that tying to take the piss.

it takes a lot for a car to be modded to beat summat thats meant to be loads faster...

if it was easy everyone would just put an exhaust on a saxo and go beating macca F1s

Anonymous

Typical attitude on here though these days isn't it?

New guy asks a simple question about his car brakes and gets someone on his back saying his car's slow?

Wonder why people bother

I would have the guy's RS6 over ANY Ford - anyone who wouldn't has the Ford blinkers on as usual - what a surprise

wimwerf

says someone about a car with 8cyl 4.2 litre twin turbo against a 4cyl 2litre turbo

if someone gonna race in a standard car against another car and loses...so what its standard then...thats the risc you take...there is always a chance you could loose because the other car is modded....

if someone is driving around in a macca f1...and he is gonna race against an escort and he loses....would be stupid to say.."yeah but my car is standard"....

Stu @ M Developments

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GARETH T

i cant see steves attitude in there

and i dont think anyone on here would call our new friends car slow

gurnE

I wasn't having a go at the guys car and anyone who would choose any Ford bar the GT over a nice RS6 has a few screws loose.

As for Ford blinkers. Erm I don't think so.
Out of 27 cars and bikes I've owned 2 shonky Fords.

A Ł40 Sierra for cheap transport for about 5 months and my Sierra Cosworth.
Broke that for spares over a year ago now

The only interest I have in Fords is the cheap accessible performance of the turbo charged RS models.

I wasnt slagging his car off, just bringing up a fun little play on the motorway.

He said it was fast, I simply said it wasn't that fast. Hardly calling it 'slow'

Carlsworth

[quote="Alan Ramsay"]
ditto,,....ok, bar the gt.....

andre_k

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tbh id rather have alot of fords over an rs6. i do love them, and id buy one if i could afford one, but id rather have martin hadlands escos, or even a shonky mk4 (jamie@jamsports... when its finished )






the rs6 is still a VERY nice car

wimwerf

[quote="lookatmasexycossie"]ok...so a rs6 is nicer then the rs200 evo....

gurnE

[quote="wimwerf"]Comparing two completely different cars there.

If I was running one car as daily transport then yes, an RS6 would be better than an RS200