S brake conversion & caliper rebuild - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

ekam · 06-21-2010, 08:26 AM

Well apparently the rear S calipers will have problem fitting without the adapter/spacer from FVD Germany, of which that part is discontinued.

If I can't locate someone that's selling them, I'm selling the complete rebuilt rear S calipers and swap my base front calipers to the rear.

ekam · 06-29-2010, 05:35 PM

GOLD......

Pat · 06-29-2010, 06:14 PM

Any difference in stopping won't be attributed to the difference in rotors, assuming the pads mate with the rotor surface properly.

ekam · 06-29-2010, 06:22 PM

Too early to tell since the pad is still bedding in to the rotor. Again I think the difference will be most noticed at the track where it'll see severe braking. For now it just looks damn good.

chaudanova · 06-30-2010, 12:49 AM

Very cool! Are those 2 piece rotors pretty costly compared to stock rotors?

ekam · 06-30-2010, 02:50 AM

They're about $1k after refinishing.

jcb986 · 06-30-2010, 06:24 AM

You should get up on a nice highway and bed your brakes correctly. Get up to about 70mph and brake very hard but not locking up the brakes and get your speed down to about 30mph. Do this 3-4 times and your brakes will feel better.

ekam · 07-01-2010, 05:45 AM

Took out the pistons from the base front calipers, to my supurise they're 40mm and 36mm - same as the S front calipers!!!

It's going to be interesting to put these on the rear... I have to learn how not to do any trail brake...

Or maybe I need a crappy set of pads... what do you guys suggest? Textar? Mintex?