OT: Who'd buy Brembo stuff?

Like Atlantaman said Brembo is impossible to deal with/get a straight answer. For example I have tried to unravel the mystrey of the 348/355 13" brembo caliper system. So far I have identified a 355C caliper that is not available fitting only with 355C wheels. It was either a direct bolt on or bolt on with adapter plate. I have ID'ed F50 and F40 calipers that fit with oem stock or any challenge wheel. I have ID'ed the granturismo kit that Brembo now sells to fit the 348/55 perhaps fitting the oem wheel and all challenge wheels. They are all different and different people make different claims. Brembo is the source and they will say nothing officially Except the GT kit is what they have to sell. They will not make statements to fitment or performance vs. the real 355C kit. AS a result I have stuck with stock. If I have to reinvent the wheel with Brembo I might as well do what AtlantaMan did whcih is to re-engineer using a more responsive supplier like AP or any of a number of good manufacturers. Anyway at this time under cool track conditions with slicks and huge brake ducts I can threshold brake the OEM calipers without problems. Perhaps as my late brake skill increases the calipers may be a problem and I will have to get serious about an upgrade. But I am always looking for an improvement

 

I am interested in putting a set of 355mm on my car. But I can't seem to get any answer from brembo about the setup for my late 328 ABS hub car. Since I am going 18" 360 and later, 512TR wheels, I figured that the setup off of the 512TR might work. (using that A, B, C thing they have)

Anyway, what is the difference between the Brembo F50, Lotus, and GT brakes? Do they even make the first 2 anymore? If I get a set, will I lose the Parking break with the rears? Brembo says no in their cat. but are kinda ambiguous.

I am very interested, but noone answers my questions on the brakes so I wait...

 

other ideas: Brake Man, and Outlaw.

Other than that, you will not get your 10 item buy-in with Brembo from a Ferrari board alone. You'd be lucky enough to get five, but ten... least likely. You might want to do more talks with them, if you are serious about this. You will not be cornering a market, but you'll need someone up front to want to do a build up of some kind. You need to read up from Rob S.'s posts about the brake kits in the Challenge cars as well. He has the best knowledge about the Challenge cars when it comes to suspension/alignments and brake systems.

But I think the most important question is - is a big challenge brembo kit ideal for those 10 people? or even 5? I would say one or two out of your ten would be able to utilize it on the track. The rest, just bling-bling on the street, and it will not stop any better than their stockers, but they'll feel a difference.

Either direction you go in, a company like Brembo, or one of the smaller companies I mentioned, best of luck.

 

Please do, I am still waiting for a reply for my emails. My main questions are as follows:

To select braking system, are only the "A, b and C" the important values? I ask this since although my car is a 328, the wheels are all fronts off of a 360 right now, and later will be all fronts off of a 512TR. This is why I think a 512TR brake package will work best for me, since A,B,C values will be the same as the 512TR front. That said, I dont know what I can do about the rears.
Here is what Brembo says for the front A, B, and Cs: 35 122 200
Thus I think they will work with 360 rims, since they have a 61 122 200 A,B and C. (B and C are the same, and A needs less for the 512 package then the 360, so it should work...I think)

Since my fronts rims will match my rears, I need something that closly matches the fronts, thus I am looking at the one TR rear package with 8 122 200, A,B, and C values. Would that be better then just getting the 512TR?

Aside from that rear issue, I need to know if the parking brake will work.

See my issue is that I do not know exactly what will fit and work with my car....and I dont want a varient of the 308 package those tiny baby disks.. 355mm for me!

I really want my car to stop better, and though I agree for most the case is simply 'bling,' when upgrading from my stock tiny archaic old school calipers and disks that are 272 mm front 277 mm rear, to modern 355mm with modern 4 pots I feel will do the trick in increasing braking preformance.

 

BrakeMan makes custom kits. They've pieced together custom kits for other cars that I've worked with and one has become a production unit. So, just because it isn't listed, doesn't mean that they cannot make it or make it happen. The Outlaw calipers, while they might not look like the best, they definately rock. Not sure if a Ferrari owner would want "outlaw" calipers as opposed to brembo or even wilwoods (which have come up on par in the last few years by a great margin with their forged calipers), but it is worth a try for an outlet.