[TrickyDick]

I've had D2 330mm brakes on my 7 for a good few years now using Carbotech XP12 pads and together they perform very well. However as they are used mainly for track days I've had to change discs every year because the D2 discs suffer from bad surface cracking - actually failed an MOT one year.

Thought I'd try MTEC discs this year. They are machined flat compared to the 1mm mounting lip on the D2's so I decided to mount the bell with 1mm washers to put them central again - no ill effects doing this as far as I have seen.

With new pads I bedded them in with a few heat cycles on the road (a few 70 - 20 hard stops type of thing) and let them cool each time. First time on track got them a lot hotter with a few laps and again let them cool.

After this they worked well on track however on the road afterwards they squealed something rotten - even I found it hard to live with !

However after a couple more hard use track days the squeal calmed down and they are now OK on the road (not 100% quiet but OK). I assume this is both pad and disc bedding down.

After similar use (see below) the MTECs are holding up much better than the D2s so overall I'd recommend MTEC as a better alternative to D2/K-Sport and they are a little cheaper too :smthumbup

One other thing to note with D2 is DO NOT under any circumstances use the drilled disc option - my garage fitted these after the MOT fail and after 1 track day they had 2mm deep cracks around lots of the holes, to be fair to supplier they replaced them FOC.

D2 disc:

MTEC:

D2 after 1 track outing

 

[Jinksevo]

I was looking at getting 330mm front k sport kit for my 8 and running with their own discs and using carbotec xp12's also. The kit without the pads is £900 give or take.. but you've kinda put me off their discs now :-(

 

[TrickyDick]

Of course component life depends on your usage and I've always been hard on brakes. They are a consumable item so anything you use will need maintenance replacement at some point. My review was to compare replacement options and I still think the original setup is very good value for money at about half the cost of Alcons etc. and this setup does work very well.

Cheers
Rich

 

[Sam-b]

Hi bud, where did you purchase the MTEC discs from, I'm in need of some replacement discs for my D2's so happy you posted this. When you say you mounted with 1mm washers, do you mean between the disc and rotar ?

 

[Jinksevo]

Of course component life depends on your usage and I've always been hard on brakes. They are a consumable item so anything you use will need maintenance replacement at some point. My review was to compare replacement options and I still think the original setup is very good value for money at about half the cost of Alcons etc. and this setup does work very well.

Cheers
Rich

Cheers for your feedback rich, I understand discs and pads are a consumable.. but I guess I'll just use the discs that come in the kit anyway, and when they are ruined get some mtec or girodisc ones. Do you rate the calliper as a decent calliper?

Cheers aaron.

 

[thetyrant]

Good review, im surprised at the difference and will be interesting to see longer term findings, we have always found the Ksport/D2 grooved rotors to be pretty durable and with curved internal vanes a decent design.

Its a shame the Mtec ones don't have the proper offset to make direct fitment though as im not sure I would want washers where you have them, but if its working just keep an eye on bolts for coming loose.

Ian

 

[stu8]

long time ago since I fitted K Sports and not got the car anymore, but didnt they come with a bag of shims, various thicknesses, to space the caliper, to make it central on the disc. Would that not be a better place to compensate for the difference

STu

 

[TrickyDick]

Hi bud, where did you purchase the MTEC discs from, I'm in need of some replacement discs for my D2's so happy you posted this. When you say you mounted with 1mm washers, do you mean between the disc and rotar ?

Bought direct from MTEC - see their listing in "Links"

 

[TrickyDick]

Cheers for your feedback rich, I understand discs and pads are a consumable.. but I guess I'll just use the discs that come in the kit anyway, and when they are ruined get some mtec or girodisc ones. Do you rate the calliper as a decent calliper?

Cheers aaron.

Calipers work well, much better than standard Brembo and they cope with the heat on track better/longer.

 

[TrickyDick]

Good review, im surprised at the difference and will be interesting to see longer term findings, we have always found the Ksport/D2 grooved rotors to be pretty durable and with curved internal vanes a decent design.

Its a shame the Mtec ones don't have the proper offset to make direct fitment though as im not sure I would want washers where you have them, but if its working just keep an eye on bolts for coming loose.

Ian

long time ago since I fitted K Sports and not got the car anymore, but didnt they come with a bag of shims, various thicknesses, to space the caliper, to make it central on the disc. Would that not be a better place to compensate for the difference

STu

Hi bud, where did you purchase the MTEC discs from, I'm in need of some replacement discs for my D2's so happy you posted this. When you say you mounted with 1mm washers, do you mean between the disc and rotar ?

I'd agree washers not ideal and I was a little apprehensive but so far so good. IIRC the shims take it the wrong way and I didn't have any in to start with.

See second picture, you can just see the washer between bell and disc.

 

[stu8]

ahhh, wasn't thinking you'd put the spacers there. To be honest I dont think i'd be comfortable with that, especially with the heavy track use and strong pads, as you are losing some of the surface area contact/friction created when the bolts are torqued up

I'd be curious to see an engineers opinion (hint Clivew :lol: ) on this

Stu

 

[adamfitz]

I purchased some mtec rotors for my ksport kit last year and like yourself had the issue of them being flat and therefore did not sit central in the caliper. I emailed them and they said they had never come across this problem before but would supply a machined ring to act as a spacer between bell and rotor. This still didn't work so I sent them back and after a bit of hesitation they gave me a refund!

 

[TrickyDick]

ahhh, wasn't thinking you'd put the spacers there. To be honest I dont think i'd be comfortable with that, especially with the heavy track use and strong pads, as you are losing some of the surface area contact/friction created when the bolts are torqued up

I'd be curious to see an engineers opinion (hint Clivew :lol: ) on this

Stu

Of course most of the forces when braking are shear on the bolts so this will not be affected much. However I would expect the washer would result in some small turning moment because the bell is not in contact with as much of the disc as normal. If it was an issue I was expecting it might result in some judder but have not had any problems at all. Because there are 12 bolts I guess the effect is quite small.

Also the normal disc contact area with the bell is cut away quite a lot so there is not contact over the whole of the bell anyway, hence the difference with washers is much less than you might imagine.

I had new pads that are quite a snug fit hence the washers but you could do without them with slightly warn pads if preferred.

Edit ps: I have the newer M8 bolts - would be much less happy with the older M6.

 

[stu8]

Of course most of the forces when braking are shear on the bolts so this will not be affected much. However I would expect the washer would result in some small turning moment because the bell is not in contact with as much of the disc as normal. If it was an issue I was expecting it might result in some judder but have not had any problems at all. Because there are 12 bolts I guess the effect is quite small.

Also the normal disc contact area with the bell is cut away quite a lot so there is not contact over the whole of the bell anyway, hence the difference with washers is much less than you might imagine.

I had new pads that are quite a snug fit hence the washers but you could do without them with slightly warn pads if preferred.

Edit ps: I have the newer M8 bolts - would be much less happy with the older M6.

Personally i'd go without them and run the disc slightly offset, as soon as the pads will fit

Stu

 

[thetyrant]

We could always make the pads custom thickness to suit, however its not ideal to have a disc not running centrally inside the caliper, hence why the aftermarket kits comes with shims to get that right

 

[war-machine]

been on the net and in america they have a mono-bloc design k-sport caliper
must be the lastest caliper ? looks really good

 

[war-machine]

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[war-machine]

says there staying the same price !!! got to be worth
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[war-machine]

wondering if any of the mlr traders will stock these

 

[evo vi dan]

You tryed running cooling ducts? we run standard brembo's brake tech 2 piece discs and pagid rs29 on the time attack car and never had your problems! Mabe worth a look on your k sports:smthumbup