I need new brakes on my B5 S4!

[brewnami]

So, my brakes went the other day and I now need new rotors, pads, and lines. I am not running a BBK, however I have very near future plans to purchase the Porsche BBK. Since my brakes went before the funds came, I need a new solution for the time being. I am about to order front drilled zimmermans, rear drilled and slotted eurospecs, steel lines, and hawk pads. After a bunch of research, those seem to be pretty good options. I just wanted to see what fellow audiziners thought. I know people talk trash about drilled rotors, but I won't be doing any track driving and I figured if Porsche, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, and a lot of other high end sports and luxury cars use drilled rotors as OEM brakes, they probably are not as bad as some people on the bimmer forums think. I know cold drilling is different, but the zimmermans have a pretty good reputation and I've driven an S4 with them and it felt very nice. Has anyone on here used adam's rotors? What are other S4 drivers using other than OEM and BBK?

I need to place he order Tuesday so let me here some input!

Thanks!

[brewnami]

AWE carries power slot front and rear kits. I had them on my old A4 in the rear, but how do they compare to zimmerman and eurospec?

[dbeard]

I would be interested to hear some opinions. Also, where is a good place to get a Porsche BBK if I was in the market for one right now?

[brewnami]

I would be interested to hear some opinions. Also, where is a good place to get a Porsche BBK if I was in the market for one right now?

Well I can answer that one for ya. Here in the link to the stage 4 brake kit from ECS tuning. Porsche BBK.
http://www.ecstuning.com/Audi-B5_S4--2.7T/Braking/ECS_Stage_4/

There is also a dude selling a used set in this forum.

[VegasAIV]

best price is to source everything yourself, thats what i did and paid about 700 for everything. JHM also sells a kit.

[Sour]

best price is to source everything yourself, thats what i did and paid about 700 for everything. JHM also sells a kit.
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in the mean time just pick up some zimmerman's or something similar

ecs also has zinc rotors

[dbeard]

Did you guys assemble everything from used parts you picked up, or were you buying OEM brand new? And if that's the case, what is your setup, and where were you getting the parts?

[brewnami]

What I really want to get is feedback from people who have used OEM replacement rotors such as zimmerman cross drilleds or power slots. I've read mixed reviews, but 1 bad review goes further than 5 positive reviews. I used power slots on in the back of my A4. They were fine, but rear brakes don't concern me. Who uses or used power slots or zimmerman x-drilleds up front? A BBK is out of the question for me right now. If I just had to replace the fronts, that would be a different story.

[Sour]

I ran zimmerman drilled rotors on my Stage 2 B5 S4 they did the job perfectly and weren't very expensive. Got to use them in all weather conditions, summer, winter (heavy snow fall), heavy rains, didn't have any problems braking or second thoughts running hard on them. On my C5 A6 Avant I ran a pair of ECS's zinc rotors in the front over the spring/summer a bit to grabby for my liking but seemed very solid and were also inexpensive, traded the car in soon after only had them on 2-3 months. I've also ran a set of ECS drilled rotors on my s6 no complaints again. You really don't need a crazy braking system (expensive) on our Audi's unless your running track or have 300+ whp an like driving hard in the mountains etc its really for looks more then anything... Adam's rotors look really nice would deff put them on my S6 don't know a lot about them though stats/ what they are made of maybe he will chime in or pm him. Stoptech makes nice kits also before you go out and drop a few k on putting together a porsche set.

[brewnami]

I need new rears the most and I want to get matching rotors. I like the stoptech stage 2 set on eurocode, but I can save $100 with my original plan of zimmerman x-drilled fronts, euro spec drilled/slotted rears, hawk pads and stainless lines. I guess matching does not matter so much as I will be switching to a BBK next summer. The Porsche BBK is $1,850 on JHM and I'm sure someone wouldn't mind an S4 front brake set on an A4 for cheap.

[dbeard]

Sour, thanks for the info.

[brewnami]

Front and rear matching power slots are in transit.

[eundaddy]

i hear good things about the goodridge lines

[titikaka]

I ran zimmerman drilled rotors on my Stage 2 B5 S4 they did the job perfectly and weren't very expensive. Got to use them in all weather conditions, summer, winter (heavy snow fall), heavy rains, didn't have any problems braking or second thoughts running hard on them..

x2 haha I have S4 stage 2++ with the same front and rear drilled zimermman rotors and no issues at all!! Also I use these rotors on my previous A4 V6 and on my Skoda SuperB V6, and again no issues at all!!

Zimermman have great rotors and great prices...here in Europe they are most used brand!!

http://www.ultimot.net/

:)