Who is going to get these first?
Who is going to get these first?
So I was looking around for brake upgrades and i stumbled upon this on BMW forum:
Carbon Ceramic Brake Rotors. 9.6lbs for a 355mm rotor.
Apparently they are made in all sizes of stoptech BBK kits.
The only Catch is the price of them $15,000 for full BBK with the rotors or $10,000 for just the rotors if you already have the BBK's front and rear. Hopefully they will go down in price... lol
Still a really cool concept.
Carbon Ceramic Brake Rotors. 9.6lbs for a 355mm rotor.
Apparently they are made in all sizes of stoptech BBK kits.
The carbon ceramic rotor upgrade is available now for any existing StopTech 4-wheel big brake upgrade with any combination of 332x32mm, 355x32mm, or 380x32mm rotors. The upgrade consists of four rotors in the appropriate sizes, mounted with special hardware to new AeroHats. It also includes street pads designed to work with the carbon ceramic rotors. The price is $9,995 for the upgrade. (Expensive, but still significantly lower than the cost of the Porsche PCCB option.)
The rotor upgrades are sold in 4-wheel kits for the same reason Tire Rack sells Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires in 4-wheel sets. The friction levels are very different from traditional iron rotors and conventional brake pads. So they cannot be mixed and matched. No 2-wheel upgrades.
Expected rotor lifetime for a street driven car is in excess of 150,000 miles. These should last the life of the car. I do not know how long the rotors will last under heavy track use. I'll look to StopTech for some data on that, and we'll be inspecting our set closely after we track it.
StopTech is also offering complete 4-wheel big brake kits for most of the applications for which they already offer a "traditional" 4-wheel kit. The carbon ceramic kits are currently limited to 32mm thick rotors in 380mm, 355mm, and 332mm diameters. Additional rotor sizes may become available in the future. These kits will typically use ST-60 front calipers (6-pistons) and ST-40 rear calipers (4-pistons) and will cost $14,995.
The rotor upgrades are sold in 4-wheel kits for the same reason Tire Rack sells Bridgestone Blizzak snow tires in 4-wheel sets. The friction levels are very different from traditional iron rotors and conventional brake pads. So they cannot be mixed and matched. No 2-wheel upgrades.
Expected rotor lifetime for a street driven car is in excess of 150,000 miles. These should last the life of the car. I do not know how long the rotors will last under heavy track use. I'll look to StopTech for some data on that, and we'll be inspecting our set closely after we track it.
StopTech is also offering complete 4-wheel big brake kits for most of the applications for which they already offer a "traditional" 4-wheel kit. The carbon ceramic kits are currently limited to 32mm thick rotors in 380mm, 355mm, and 332mm diameters. Additional rotor sizes may become available in the future. These kits will typically use ST-60 front calipers (6-pistons) and ST-40 rear calipers (4-pistons) and will cost $14,995.
The only Catch is the price of them $15,000 for full BBK with the rotors or $10,000 for just the rotors if you already have the BBK's front and rear. Hopefully they will go down in price... lol
Still a really cool concept.
