Graceland

Ordered a set of these and have finished fitting them, absolutely the easiest kit I have ever fitted and the quality is amazing!

356x32mm rotors and aluminium 8 pot calipers - superb!












Only 2mm clearance against my M5 wheels when fitting. The stopping power is simply brilliant, rest on the pedal and the car stands on it's nose - I can't wait untill they are bedded in!

Going to be ordering the 6pot rear kit soon aswell

anglia105e hinson

They look v nice. Is that a k sport or d2 kit?

JamesH

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Where from Paul? And go on...how much?

tabetha

Jesus look the business, just make sure you don't get rear ended when stopping too quick!!
Certainly look a nice quality piece of kit, are you on 18's ?
tabetha

MalteseFalcon

where do you get those from????

Rsmat

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They look nice Paul mate.

jameswrx

ebay?

saw these the other day (I think) http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Set-2-x-PHATBO...item41595d42ed

Omawarisan

I picked my 6 pots up of Ebay and I couldn't believe how big they were. I can't wait to fit them. Those 8 pots look like monsters.....

Graceland

They are monsters - at least a foot long each one

James, They are from the chap off of ebay, but I ordered direct off his website instead, www.phatboybrakes.com - poor name, great product BUT the chap who is in Taipei who deals with it all is an english bloke called Dan and I have a sneeky feeling that allthe parts come fromt he same factory as the D2 and K-Sport kits

Mr RS500

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I would be spending money getting the rot sorted out before buying brakes

Graceland

Cheers for they oh so valuable input Paul FYI it is surface bubbling and is already booked into be done.

-beefy-

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how would you rate them against the bigger named brands gracy ??

Graceland

So far Beefy, the quality is up there with the more expensive stuff in terms of appearance, finish, fitment and overall quality. The stopping power is amazing, I would say that they are much better than the AP brakes I had on my white Cossie and the Brembo 4 pots I had on my smokestone Cossie (granted they are only 4 pots but the Cossie weight was about 700Kg lighter thanthe E39). So far I've done 120 miles since fitting them and the feel of the pedal is improving all the time. Once the pads are bedded in fully I'll re-bleed the brake fluid and that's that. If anything is to go wrong, then the company offers a 1 year warranty on the calipers and 6 months on the rotors/bells if anything fails after correct installation - Not sure if any other the big brands offer anything like that?


As for people enquiring about prices, I apid Ł1019 for the kit (delivered and customs tax etc).

Tabetha - 18" OEM M5 wheels, I think they are 8.5" wide on the front and 9.5" wide on the rear

I did a lot of research about the company before I bought the kit, seems that all the reviews are good and everyone is very pleased - especially in the States

Rick

Welcome to the 8 pot club

turbotoaster

i wonder if they are the same company who supplys k sport and D2, if so you could have had the exact same kit for Ł911 delivered to your door

MalteseFalcon

is there a company who sells them in the UK?

rs-tuner

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I'm in the 8 pot club to

Whitestripe

I have a set of 356mm 6 pots on my Focus ST 2.5. I've been testing them against stock and EBC setups with a Racelogic Drift Box... full feature in Performance Ford next month.

FYI... build quality is really good i can't fault them in any way! My ST now stops from 60-0 in a shorter distance than a 355 Ferrari.

Dan sends these out directly from Tiawan and they arrive within the week.

Visit http://www.pbbrakes.com/ for more info.

Cubby

Graceland

They are fantastic stoppers indeed.

I have the 6pots on the rear now also with 356mm rotors and they are simply brilliant and the car is very well balanced under heavy braking.

Upgrading to the 380mm front discs soon too


Only thing I have found that lets them down is the brake pads in wet weather are dire untill you have dried them off with a bit of heavy braking, looking for alternative pads to sort that though so nothing major really as you can't really say the rest of the product is bad for the sake of a poor compound brake pad

carcollector

looks nice !! just looked at his webpage and he now has 405mm discs

Graceland

A brand new caliper for the 405mm discs too - I bet that thing will be monster massive!

Rsmat

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I wouldn't mind 6 pots on the front and 4 pots on the back for the 3dr.

Sticky.

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When did you get a M5 Paul or is this still the diesel?