My Big Brake Kit
07-20-2007, 06:59 AM
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The only thing left is pads. Let's see when I will buy and receive them 
So, here is AlexFW's 545i - ?348mm front stock brakes that I bought last Christmas, (if I can recall correctly) but with some mods.
Curious about how they will perform on a 530i
Painted in chrome silver/black and drilled on M5 style, but with mirrored drilling
like M3 CSL
So, here is AlexFW's 545i - ?348mm front stock brakes that I bought last Christmas, (if I can recall correctly) but with some mods.
Curious about how they will perform on a 530i
Painted in chrome silver/black and drilled on M5 style, but with mirrored drilling
like M3 CSL
07-20-2007, 07:09 AM
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Nice can't wait to read your write-up and seeing some pictures of them underneath your rims 
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So those are stock rotors drilled?
07-20-2007, 08:22 AM
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Very nice, can't wait to see them bad boys installed!
07-20-2007, 08:40 AM
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Replacement drilled rotors are "one cut" (direction of drilling turns the opposite way, left wheel to right wheel, this one is turning in the same direction left and right). Right rotor in 1st pic is right rotor of the car and the left is left side rotor.
Detail, but detail is interesting to me
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My Ride: BMW 545iA Black Sapphire
Model Year: 2005
Engine: 545i
Nick, :
...can you do mine as well ?
performance wise - the 545i's brakes has a good bite to them, but I have noticed some fading with heavy braking coming down from high speeds (>200km/h). Could be the very hot gases having a hard time to escape - I think your drilled rotors will aid to better cool at hard braking at high speeds - no doubt.
Also the brake fluid can get pretty hot resulting in some softness - this is the reason I also bought the Goodridge brake lines.
neat job !
...can you do mine as well ?
performance wise - the 545i's brakes has a good bite to them, but I have noticed some fading with heavy braking coming down from high speeds (>200km/h). Could be the very hot gases having a hard time to escape - I think your drilled rotors will aid to better cool at hard braking at high speeds - no doubt.
Also the brake fluid can get pretty hot resulting in some softness - this is the reason I also bought the Goodridge brake lines.
neat job !