Well its cold outside so i thought i'd have a procrastinate and give you guys a bit of a show and tell, I'm real lazy when it comes to build threads so its not often i show off whats happening round here.
Big breaks do it for me, i LOVE brembos! The bigger the better! Most of the cars that me, the mrs and our friends have are BMW. Back when i had my M3 i wanted to have something big on the front, options were big money aftermarket kit or direct fit 8 series brembos. Both were more money than i wanted to spend!!
I saw the E38 728 sport came with brembos on the front and i ended up picking up a set from a scrap yard (i'd picked up a few other bits to sell on which covered the cost of not only the bremobs but my fuel!) After a bit of looking on the internet all i could find was 'its impossible to fit e38 brembos to other bmws and the bolt spacing is wrong and its impossible to make any adaptors' I'd say this is a challange!!!
I looked and devised a way.
i took the M3 to a friends who has a degree in mechanical engineering and we worked it out, he told me where strength was needed and he adapted to suit. He kindly measured everything and drew it up in CAD to email out to engineering companies. Fast forward a couple of weeks and i had some adaptors in my hands!
sadly i never got to drive them on the M3 as it left my ownership before i could get them fitted. I sold the package on to then get a call a couple of weeeks later from a very happy guy telling me how good the were!!
i had a couple of sets made up with a view to sell but nobody was interested! one set went to a close friend to go on one of my old cars and the other set has sat in my garage for far too long.
After consistant complaints from my better half about poor braking in her daily i decided it was time to get the brembos into action!
Yesterday it hailed. I was cold. I was spurred on by what i find pure awesome......
The mrs car is an E28 M535, you can see the old caliper and disk on the right. I've used E34 M5 disks with the brembos here, 315mm as apposed to the origional 280mm.
Although the brembo caliper is substantially bigger in terms of weight there is barely anything between them.
Here they are fitted up. at this point i'm starting to question wheel clearance!!
although the pic doesn't show it that well there is minimal clearance, id put it into the catogary of 'perfect fit' haha!
i think they look monster tucked in there!!
I was on my own so i was worried bleeding them would be a nightmare, twin nipples seem scary! I used a pressure bleeding kit that i had in the back of my garage from 6odd years ago(!) and it was done within seconds!
the test drive was interesting, I just didn't realise how good they would actually be! it was rather comical when i came close to a faceplant on the windscreen!!
I hope you guys like them and i'd just like to say the internet can be full of bull**&* sometimes, it was possible to make adaptors, it didnt cost me much and i am by no means a genious! Anything is possible!
just in case you want to know what the mrs car looks like from a distance .....
Big breaks do it for me, i LOVE brembos! The bigger the better! Most of the cars that me, the mrs and our friends have are BMW. Back when i had my M3 i wanted to have something big on the front, options were big money aftermarket kit or direct fit 8 series brembos. Both were more money than i wanted to spend!!
I saw the E38 728 sport came with brembos on the front and i ended up picking up a set from a scrap yard (i'd picked up a few other bits to sell on which covered the cost of not only the bremobs but my fuel!) After a bit of looking on the internet all i could find was 'its impossible to fit e38 brembos to other bmws and the bolt spacing is wrong and its impossible to make any adaptors' I'd say this is a challange!!!
I looked and devised a way.
i took the M3 to a friends who has a degree in mechanical engineering and we worked it out, he told me where strength was needed and he adapted to suit. He kindly measured everything and drew it up in CAD to email out to engineering companies. Fast forward a couple of weeks and i had some adaptors in my hands!
sadly i never got to drive them on the M3 as it left my ownership before i could get them fitted. I sold the package on to then get a call a couple of weeeks later from a very happy guy telling me how good the were!!
i had a couple of sets made up with a view to sell but nobody was interested! one set went to a close friend to go on one of my old cars and the other set has sat in my garage for far too long.
After consistant complaints from my better half about poor braking in her daily i decided it was time to get the brembos into action!
Yesterday it hailed. I was cold. I was spurred on by what i find pure awesome......
The mrs car is an E28 M535, you can see the old caliper and disk on the right. I've used E34 M5 disks with the brembos here, 315mm as apposed to the origional 280mm.
Although the brembo caliper is substantially bigger in terms of weight there is barely anything between them.
Here they are fitted up. at this point i'm starting to question wheel clearance!!
although the pic doesn't show it that well there is minimal clearance, id put it into the catogary of 'perfect fit' haha!
i think they look monster tucked in there!!
I was on my own so i was worried bleeding them would be a nightmare, twin nipples seem scary! I used a pressure bleeding kit that i had in the back of my garage from 6odd years ago(!) and it was done within seconds!
the test drive was interesting, I just didn't realise how good they would actually be! it was rather comical when i came close to a faceplant on the windscreen!!
I hope you guys like them and i'd just like to say the internet can be full of bull**&* sometimes, it was possible to make adaptors, it didnt cost me much and i am by no means a genious! Anything is possible!
just in case you want to know what the mrs car looks like from a distance .....
