the ultimate brake upgrade for a 124, will fit others

[nick.ged]

i have read all the threads in this and other forums about which brakes fit what cars ect, and have been unable to believe the rubbish that most of them sprout.

hears the biggest baddest and most trick conversion possible. it wasnt cheep, but has been put together considerably cheeper than the brembo gt kits that are avalible, and the calipers are stamped amg and brembo

YouTube - six pot brembos and 355mm discs on a mercedes 124

 

[d w124]

Have a look at this one http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/general-discussion/51098-awesome-190e-5-0-32v.html

 

[nick.ged]

thats the exact same disks i'm wating to come from italy!

 

[d w124]

Look like your car will be the ultimate c124 in UK,when you`re done with it.Did you run it on a dyno lately,what is it producing?

 

[nick.ged]

not fixed the half shaft yet, hopfully gettin donor car this weekend, then will fit the chargecooler and meth injection,then we'll see what power she makes, have you any idea where the guy with the v8 190 got his disks from, i am beeing butt fu%ked on the price quoted from italy?

 

[d w124]

Have no clue mate sorry.How much were you quoted?

 

[nick.ged]

£1200 for four, is the guy with the v8 190 a member on hear?

 

[d w124]

£1200 for four, is the guy with the v8 190 a member on hear?

I don`t think so but send Mark300sl a pm and he might ask for you.

 

[Mark300SL]

As far as I remember they too came from Italy

he got the disks cheap - and then paid a reasonable amount for 2 new calipers

Mark

 

[nick.ged]

could you ask him about the possibility of some more please?

 

[Mark300SL]

They were a one off special - very lightly used but S/H

I don't think he even wants to contemplate what happens when he needs to replace them as they are a small fortune

He only did the upgrade because he got the disks at the right price

 

[Doodle]

Being 2-piece, it should be less expensive for replacements as you only need to replace the rotor, not the carrier. Still not cheap though - a set of replacement rotors for the kit I wanted for the Civic was about £550.

 

[nick.ged]

the problem is that two piece disk are made by a few different manufactures, and the dont have any convention about hole amount or spacing ect, so he will need to know who made them, ie brembo advertise replacements at about the same price as the example above, but the other manufactures dont advertise and one i contacted said they dont deal with joe public!

it is a can of worms

 

[nick.ged]

had to scrap the ceramic disk plan, the supplier has messed me around too much, so i setteled on plain alloy bells with hcs discks, fittted caliper and finalised the spacing issues, pads should arrive by the end of this week, so its all done

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfWGBYVWvPw

 

[nick.ged]

hears how to do it

pick a post 05 amg 63 model, be it sl clk or e, if you use the e63 amg then deffinatly just remove the bracket that comes with caliper, and refit it turned through 180 degrees. (clk is not as simple, you will need a custom bracket, or buy the e63 one! dont know about sl) use a sander to remove 2mm of edge, this will be obvious when you fit the caliper and disk, and the disk rubs slightly on the bracket (if you use 203 brabus disks, others will be slightly different due to different thicknesses.)(mabe 800gbp)

buy some 203 brabus disks,get some flexis made up with banjo joint on caliper end. (350-450gbp) if you use 202 disks, you will need 3mm washers to space caliper correctly.

other disks that will fit are 210 and 129, but i dont know the exact spacing requirements as different models have slightly diffferent disk specs.

get 4 studs made up that screw into brembo bracket, then step down to 124 hub bolt size. (20gbp) or drill out the 124 hub to fit amg 63 bolts (**not advised due to weakening**)

buy pads(80 gbp redstuff-200 gbp merc stealer)

buy pad fittting kit(0 if you buy merc pads because the kit comes with them, 60gbp if you buy after market pads, totasl rip off)

1400 gbp, but worth every penny, check out the brembo gt kit for front, (using 202 or 203 kit)- 2300gbp.

fit all the parts mentioned and weeee away you go