thetunersgroup
23-01-09, 09:01 PM
Hi All,
A bit of an announcement of something we have been working on for a few months now ...
We have had a bunch of enquiries from customers looking for truly hardcore brake components to use to fit monster brakes to all kinds of cars, particularly Japanese and European track cars and time attack cars.
To come up with a solution, we went deep into the world of professional racing, and found a solution from two of the most hardcore companies in motorsport - Brembo & Porsche (specifically Porsche's Factory Motorsport Department in Weissach, Germany).
Here's a photo of Porsche's Factory Motorsport Department - awesome ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery723.jpg
The Porsche Motorsport Department is where they developed and build cars like the GT3 RSR ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery737.jpg
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery738.jpg
Anyway, to cut a long story short, we are now are able to get access to Porsche Motorsport Department parts and supply them to our customers :)
These parts are truly mindblowing and incredibly well priced. As an example ...
6 Piston Porsche Motorsport Department Calipers for just AU$1070 including GST per caliper :)
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery689.jpeg
For front calipers, we found a 6 piston radial mount caliper made by Brembo for the Porsche Motorsport Department, shown in the photo above.
These calipers are of course a special Porsche Motorsport Department caliper, which is not in the Porsche road car catalog. Many Porsche dealers do not even know it exists, because the part number is not in the Porsche road car catalog system.
They feature radial mounting which simplifies installation for custom applications, and provides two planes of adjustment for accurate alignment over the disc. So a radial mount caliper is far superior to an axial mount caliper with "ears" on the body of the caliper.
These calipers feature special ceramic inserts which help keep heat out of the brake fluid at races like the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery690.jpg
To give you an idea of the size of these calipers, take a look at the photo above. That is a 600ml sprite bottle for scale, not a 300ml bottle.
Best of all is the price of these calipers ... Because professional racing teams demand low pricing on spare parts for their racecars, we can supply these calipers at just AU$1070 including GST per caliper.
They are designed to run on a 350 mm diameter brake disc which we can also supply of course.
Because they are a radial mount caliper, they can be fitted to virtually any car by using a custom machined caliper adapter and custom hat for the brake disk.
We have also found a 4 piston caliper that can be used as either a front caliper or a rear caliper.
And for the insanely hard core cars out there, we can also supply ...
Porsche Carbon Ceramic Brakes (PCCB) :)
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery734.jpg
European Car Magazine installed a set of these brakes on one of their project cars.
They concluded ...
"A PCCB brake disc weighs 50% less than its cast-iron counterpart despite considerably larger dimensions. Like a competition-bred conventional system, the ceramic outer disc is mated to a steel inner "hat." PCCB brakes use specially developed six-piston calipers on the front and four-piston calipers on the rear.
The PCCB pads offer a high coefficient of friction for moderate pedal efforts and unusual consistency of friction characteristics across a wider range of operating temperatures than is available with Porsche's conventional brakes. Several different pad compounds are available for street and various levels of track use."
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery736.jpg
The engineering of the PCCB system is mindblowing.
Here's a diagram of how they are made ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery735.jpg
They are not cheap of course ...
As you can imagine, the price of these brakes reflects the quality and innovation of the materials and manufacturing. As a ball-park figure, the cost of a set of the latest model of PCCB brakes (for all 4 corners of a car) is more than $30,000.
But again, they can be fitted to virtually anything by using custom hats and caliper adapters.
More info
More info and a link to a photo gallery of the various brake options from Porsche Motorsport which we are now able to supply can be found on our website at ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/porsche_brakes.html
- Adam
A bit of an announcement of something we have been working on for a few months now ...
We have had a bunch of enquiries from customers looking for truly hardcore brake components to use to fit monster brakes to all kinds of cars, particularly Japanese and European track cars and time attack cars.
To come up with a solution, we went deep into the world of professional racing, and found a solution from two of the most hardcore companies in motorsport - Brembo & Porsche (specifically Porsche's Factory Motorsport Department in Weissach, Germany).
Here's a photo of Porsche's Factory Motorsport Department - awesome ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery723.jpg
The Porsche Motorsport Department is where they developed and build cars like the GT3 RSR ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery737.jpg
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery738.jpg
Anyway, to cut a long story short, we are now are able to get access to Porsche Motorsport Department parts and supply them to our customers :)
These parts are truly mindblowing and incredibly well priced. As an example ...
6 Piston Porsche Motorsport Department Calipers for just AU$1070 including GST per caliper :)
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery689.jpeg
For front calipers, we found a 6 piston radial mount caliper made by Brembo for the Porsche Motorsport Department, shown in the photo above.
These calipers are of course a special Porsche Motorsport Department caliper, which is not in the Porsche road car catalog. Many Porsche dealers do not even know it exists, because the part number is not in the Porsche road car catalog system.
They feature radial mounting which simplifies installation for custom applications, and provides two planes of adjustment for accurate alignment over the disc. So a radial mount caliper is far superior to an axial mount caliper with "ears" on the body of the caliper.
These calipers feature special ceramic inserts which help keep heat out of the brake fluid at races like the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery690.jpg
To give you an idea of the size of these calipers, take a look at the photo above. That is a 600ml sprite bottle for scale, not a 300ml bottle.
Best of all is the price of these calipers ... Because professional racing teams demand low pricing on spare parts for their racecars, we can supply these calipers at just AU$1070 including GST per caliper.
They are designed to run on a 350 mm diameter brake disc which we can also supply of course.
Because they are a radial mount caliper, they can be fitted to virtually any car by using a custom machined caliper adapter and custom hat for the brake disk.
We have also found a 4 piston caliper that can be used as either a front caliper or a rear caliper.
And for the insanely hard core cars out there, we can also supply ...
Porsche Carbon Ceramic Brakes (PCCB) :)
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery734.jpg
European Car Magazine installed a set of these brakes on one of their project cars.
They concluded ...
"A PCCB brake disc weighs 50% less than its cast-iron counterpart despite considerably larger dimensions. Like a competition-bred conventional system, the ceramic outer disc is mated to a steel inner "hat." PCCB brakes use specially developed six-piston calipers on the front and four-piston calipers on the rear.
The PCCB pads offer a high coefficient of friction for moderate pedal efforts and unusual consistency of friction characteristics across a wider range of operating temperatures than is available with Porsche's conventional brakes. Several different pad compounds are available for street and various levels of track use."
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery736.jpg
The engineering of the PCCB system is mindblowing.
Here's a diagram of how they are made ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/images/gallery/gallery735.jpg
They are not cheap of course ...
As you can imagine, the price of these brakes reflects the quality and innovation of the materials and manufacturing. As a ball-park figure, the cost of a set of the latest model of PCCB brakes (for all 4 corners of a car) is more than $30,000.
But again, they can be fitted to virtually anything by using custom hats and caliper adapters.
More info
More info and a link to a photo gallery of the various brake options from Porsche Motorsport which we are now able to supply can be found on our website at ...
http://www.tunersgroup.com/porsche_brakes.html
- Adam