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Testarossa Brake upgrades

Discussion in 'Boxers/TR/M' started by Santino1, Sep 14, 2015.

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  1. Santino1

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  2. Todd308TR

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  3. rpissm

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    Looks like they did a better job painting their logo on the calipers than they did painting the Ferrari logo.
     
  4. sparta49

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    How are the prices compared to Brembo?
     
  5. Auraraptor

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    #5 Auraraptor, Sep 14, 2015
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    Movit 4 piston calipers are copy of (the Brembo designed) monoblock Porsche 993 Turbo calipers.

    Unlike the Brembo Testarossa kit, Movit offers a lightweight kit which fits under factory wheels. From memory it also has better brake balance then the Brembo kit (getting the full kit from Brembo gives you a stupid 50% F/ 50% R balance, with a worse pedal feel given the added pistons area if you keep your factory master cylinder).

    Personally if your going with a Brembo kit for your car, I would opt for a custom rear setup with better/more apporiate sized rear pistons (Assuming your front pistons are 40mm-40mm, I would get a 34mm-34mm rear, assuming the same disk size and pad compound F/R)
     
  6. Santino1

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    Quoted: USD $5090 incl delivery for the set front and rear, seems a price advantage over the Brembo, and you can keep the stock wheels, and rear parking brake. I wonder why it took Ferrari the time it did to upgrade the brakes with the 512TR. I mean Porsche had better brakes in these years, 928S4, 911T, 944T.
     
  7. Auraraptor

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    Contracts. Brakes were subcontracted. Ferrari didn't use Brembo as long as porsche.
     
  8. Rifledriver

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    Ferrari had crap brakes for most of their history. Even the 512 wasn't very good. I think the 355 was the first car with decent brakes in their entire history. Even many of the race cars had really terrible brakes.
     
  9. turbo-joe

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    enzo always said:
    this one who will brake will loose :)
     
  10. Santino1

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  13. todd6363

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    #13 todd6363, Sep 18, 2015
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  14. dtm-pr

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    off topic, this black TR is marvelous...
     
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    #15 todd6363, Sep 19, 2015
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  16. Melvok

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    I'd recommend oem 512TR brakes ....
     

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