Carbon Ceramic brakes

[Tonymiabmw]

Originally Posted by consolidated

I was just cleaning my gold club calipers today, with a cashmere wipe carefully moistened with unicorn tears, folded over my Centurion card , thinking about how on earth is this thread still alive?

[M_PATHY]

I love the look of the 6/4 pot gold CCB calipers. Since I don't plan on really tracking the car, I don't care about the carbon rotors. What are your guy's thoughts about just selling the carbon rotors to offset the price of the CCB option? Seems like a new set of rotors are going for about 14k. Even if you sell the pads and rotors at 10K, you can buy all new steel rotors and pads and come out even or even make a little extra. Now comes the concern of what steel rotors will be compatible with the calipers.

[consolidated]

Originally Posted by M_PATHY

I love the look of the 6/4 pot gold CCB calipers. Since I don't plan on really tracking the car, I don't care about the carbon rotors. What are your guy's thoughts about just selling the carbon rotors to offset the price of the CCB option? Seems like a new set of rotors are going for about 14k. Even if you sell the pads and rotors at 10K, you can buy all new steel rotors and pads and come out even or even make a little extra. Now comes the concern of what steel rotors will be compatible with the calipers.

I know the Porsche PCCB secondary market fairly well if it's any indication. The buyers of used rotors are track junkies (small group within a small group) who have to have the best, 80%+ rotors get about $6-8K for a set, little more if they are 'new'.

Agree that first to market with CCB fitment two-piece steel rotors will get quite a few takers. Or aftermarket carbon with lower cost.

For my DD which will see only a little track use, I guessing I won't need rotors for a long time if ever. Since they don't fit the blue calipers my guess is there won't be many buyers if I took them off and sold'm...at least for a few years.

I'm going to enjoy them, run them down and put steel on when it's time. The car will still be more desirable with the bigger gold clampers and rotors.

[M_PATHY]

Originally Posted by consolidated

I know the Porsche PCCB secondary market fairly well if it's any indication. The buyers of used rotors are track junkies (small group within a small group) who have to have the best, 80%+ rotors get about $6-8K for a set, little more if they are 'new'.

Agree that first to market with CCB fitment two-piece steel rotors will get quite a few takers. Or aftermarket carbon with lower cost.

For my DD which will see only a little track use, I guessing I won't need rotors for a long time if ever. Since they don't fit the blue calipers my guess is there won't be many buyers if I took them off and sold'm...at least for a few years.

I'm going to enjoy them, run them down and put steel on when it's time. The car will still be more desirable with the bigger gold clampers and rotors.

How much are the Porsche CC rotors going for MSRP from similar sites like Turner and EAS?

[HP Autosport]

Originally Posted by M_PATHY

I love the look of the 6/4 pot gold CCB calipers. Since I don't plan on really tracking the car, I don't care about the carbon rotors. What are your guy's thoughts about just selling the carbon rotors to offset the price of the CCB option? Seems like a new set of rotors are going for about 14k. Even if you sell the pads and rotors at 10K, you can buy all new steel rotors and pads and come out even or even make a little extra. Now comes the concern of what steel rotors will be compatible with the calipers.

Brembo will likely come out with steel replacement rotors like they did for the Porsche guys, then it's on to finding the pads for the calipers.

[consolidated]

The best part of the calipers is hidden by the wheel, the negative relief on the back looks great.

These things are just huge, enormous even compared to the calipers on my RS. Just put 12mm Burger spacers on, great price and minimal graphics.

[FTS]

Originally Posted by consolidated

The best part of the calipers is hidden by the wheel, the negative relief on the back looks great.

These things are just huge, enormous even compared to the calipers on my RS. Just put 12mm Burger spacers on, great price and minimal graphics.

Oh man, that's brake porn to me

Congrats on the car, can't wait for your impressions, or did I miss them somewhere?

[consolidated]

Originally Posted by FTS

Oh man, that's brake porn to me

Congrats on the car, can't wait for your impressions, or did I miss them somewhere?

I love it, but the forum's been overrun with reviews so I'll wait til I take it to TWS after break-in to hopefully add some information to the board.

Otherwise, it's been a perfect DD, with teeth. I've never driven a BMW with brakes this good.

[FTS]

Originally Posted by consolidated

I love it, but the forum's been overrun with reviews so I'll wait til I take it to TWS after break-in to hopefully add some information to the board.

Otherwise, it's been a perfect DD, with teeth. I've never driven a BMW with brakes this good.

Nice!!! Can't wait, stay safe