Brembo 2-piece floating discs for F40

Brembo has released the following New Applications:

FERRARI

F40 Front 332x32 2-Piece $1,695

F40 Rear 332x32 2-Piece $1,695


1. These kits will be considered special order.

2. Kits are direct replacement discs for OEM Ferrari F40 applications.

3. 332x32mm 2-piece floating discs front and rear

Please call 631-585-8600 to order.

 

Thats a lot of money considering replacement rotors are available from Brembo and AP for about $300.00. For $3200 you can get an entire brake upgrade, rotors, hats, calipers pads and brake lines. Why so much?

 

But he's selling parts for Ferrari's!

I'd be surprised if there's not a big mark-up on those. While 2-piece rotors won't be as cheap as $300 per corner, a set of 4 will likely reach near $3k. From then on, the disc is replaced cheaply and the aluminum hat lasts a long time.

 

F40's have 2 piece rotors from the factory.... You need only replace the disc...

 

That is MSRP from Brembo. We do not set pricing.

Correct.

 

But they don't float, and I thought they were thinner than 32mm? However, I think it would be wiser to replace the calipers first!

 

Factory F40 brakes suck. PERIOD. The factory rotors are terrible and dangerous.

Replacing any part with Factory parts is a waist of time and money.

Unless you just drive the car like its a Prius, you should upgrade the Calipers, Rotors that is about $3,200 for a basic upgrade, you should also spec titanium pistons in the calipers for additional heat dissapation. For maximum braking you will need a dual Master setup as the factory master is simply not capable of stopping the car with larger calipers.

By the way, the Brembo setup was developed for my F40. Look in Forza magazine for the article by Peter Brock on this upgrade.

 

The factory brakes are just fine if you know their limitations. Proper ducting is a must. Most F40's are missing the air conveyor tubes that go from the curved duct to the rotor face. I have seen the factory ones on very few cars. I was told that most were removed due to the ducts picking up rocks that resulted in them getting stuck in the calipers and making noise. Owners complained . F40 brakes will usually suck for people who do not do their own maintenance. Why? you have to constantly change the brake fluid due to the fact that the reservoir is VENTED to atmosphere. Kills the clutch as well. Unless you bleed you brakes before and after every track session you will be boiling the fluid because you are dealing with the WET BOILING POINT. The easy fix is to use an AP racing bellows that seals out air. Also if you are running track sessions with the rubber dust seals in place, you are just asking for trouble. The car accelerates and handles much better with the factory set-up since the rotors are a pillar design and are lighter. It doesnt matter how big the brakes are if you dont cool them properly. Painted brake calipers are for the ignorant. It just shows how Ferrari will go to please its customers. The factory brakes were state of the art at the time but you have to understand them to get them to function properly.

 

I agree the brakes are not too bad. First, they are manual, not power assist, so you have to apply significant force. Chicken-legs need not apply. Second, good pads, proper ducts and fresh fluid are a must (on any car driven hard). I used the car hard at Motorsport Ranch and it did just fine. Not up to 2010 Porsche Cup car snuff, but just fine.

I bet I can lap as fast as the driver of a car with modded brakes, if all else is stock and on street tires.

I am not a big fan of hotroddiing the F40 - it will never be as fast as, say, a Radical SR8 so why not have an SR8 for the more common track abuse and enjoy the F40 for what it is - a 20-year-old icon that does not embarass itself even though technology has moved on.

 

The F40 still holds the lap record for a GT car at Le Mans, Mclaren F1 and Porsche GT1 included. I doubt the Radical has the gearing for a lap there. I'm sure that any generation of a Swift DB-1 Formula Ford is faster still than the Radical. There is always something faster, better,etc...

 

Interesting on F40; that surprises me that it could be faster than more modern GT cars; is the time with or without the chicane on the Mulsanne straight (I think it was added in 1990)? What was the time, track configuration, driver and team? I tried to look up lap records and it was not easy. Was it faster than the McLaren F1?

 

I agree wholeheartedly. If you want more modern brakes then buy and Enzo or a 458 or something. It was good at the time so why would anyone want to change that now by changing the whole set up? The F40 along with other older cars offer an driving experience of their time and period. If you change that then you're basically fooling yourself that you are driving a period classic car. You are driving a mutation. Just drive to the limitations of the brakes or your own for that matter.

 

I still think that an F40 running race gas, race tires, and improved shocks and brake pads would give any factory GT racecar a run for its money. Thats the episode of Top Gear I would like to see. We could call it "Supercar Icon Facelift". It would be a shame for the factory racers to be upstaged. There would have to be some progress in 20 years... Nick Mason are you listening....

 

Would a larger/ twin master cylinder on an otherwise standard braking system make any difference?. I understand this would intrude on the spare wheel well though. Could servo assistance be fitted?