That's a good choice, a very good aggressive street pad.
Front brakes on a 2003 Passat W8....high strangeness!
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Napa is selling some crap tier 25$ rotors for my flex which is actually incredibly cheap since they are closer to 100 bucks. I may buy a pair and swap them just for fun.
Just tried to use NAPAS 20% off coupon and honestly at this point I will spend 100 bucks somewhere else. This is cart dealer level of BS.
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Fascinating brakes. I wonder what the considerations were when designing that.
If you haven't already, check out some of B Sport's videos on YouTube. He has technical design experience at VAG and shares some insightful "insider" knowledge.
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What?? Strangness with parts on a VW??!?.
There has to be enthusiast engineers at VAG because of how they speced some of the "mundane" cars. Ex., B6 Passat 4Motion wagon came with 345mm rotors and huge, single piston calipers (think Performance Package from MKVII GTI). 2.0T Komfort wagon just made do with the puny 312 units that they fitted to just about every other car. Well, in an effort to consolidate parts I suppose, they DID fit the aluminum front knuckles from the VR6 one. Don'tcha know, the bigger calipers bolt right up, without any adaptor brackets. Found a set of calipers for $100, cleaned them up and fitted new brake lines. Zimmerman rotors, same HH compound Pagids as yours, and the larger dust shields I found at local LKQ. Viola! OEM+ brake set-up that will detach your retinas for cheap money. Somewhere, a VW parts engineer is chuckling maniacally.
If you haven't already, check out some of B Sport's videos on YouTube. He has technical design experience at VAG and shares some insightful "insider" knowledge.
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***cough cough***semi-metallics***cough***minimum G rated***cough***
Cool car. only 100 W8 manuals were ever shipped to the USA. Even weirder trivia one of the Audi S8 models was offered with a manual transmission but not for the usa.
Correct - and I don't have one hahaha....Tip-Tragic auto here. 97 is the number I have for the production data that has been shared in the FB group. V. rare indeed and clearly the better transmission.
I don't know much about this g rating thing, my Pagids are semi-metallic and that's why they work so well!
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EBC Yellow Stuff is EE.
Also i think yellow is aramid fibers ? Would that be organic or something else ?
What does that mean? Not familiar with these values?
It's ratings for g forces of braking ABCD
The "higher" the letter the more grip.
I think first letter is warm performance and last letter is cold performance
I got yellow stuff on my G37 don't remember if it was from or rears but I remember seeing they were GG. I have the updated compound that does not contain copper.
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Coefficient of friction rating system: https://brakepower.com/brake-pad-friction-coefficient.htm
But I think I care more about ECE R90 for Euro brakes. Which usually means a lot of dust
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Probably not far from reality. Ferdinand Piech had very high standards which resulted in very over-engineered designs!
Ok, need to learn about this. I just go off Mu/friction coeff.
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I run the Jurid version of these pads on our German fleet. They're dusty for sure, but their feel and performance is outstanding; and brown dust, not black dust. This is our BMW E90 after about 500 miles worth of normal driving.
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