If you look on the 312mm conversion thread for the octy II you will see who makes the JKM brakes and the details listed on there but like i said above i'd have just gone for better discs/pads on the 312mm before splashing money on a larger set up.

I did that with mine, and they were still not up to scratch.

Fair enough Dave, but I think your car could be considered the most extreme version of most here .

The 312mm is a lot better than the 288, but I guess I'd probably have gone for a willwood 4 port or something over the R32 set up.

Fair enough Dave, but I think your car could be considered the most extreme version of most here .

The 312mm is a lot better than the 288, but I guess I'd probably have gone for a willwood 4 port or something over the R32 set up.

I meant on the Octy vRS I had Mark . 312 Tarox all round, which work so well on the Fabia, didnt inspire much confidence on the Octy. If I was going down that road again Id be putting bigger ones on.

I meant on the Octy vRS I had Mark . 312 Tarox all round, which work so well on the Fabia, didnt inspire much confidence on the Octy. If I was going down that road again Id be putting bigger ones on.

Somehow I completely forgot you had that, but fair point well made.

The 288mm were truly scary for me on mine, hence my change.

I meant on the Octy vRS I had Mark . 312 Tarox all round, which work so well on the Fabia, didnt inspire much confidence on the Octy. If I was going down that road again Id be putting bigger ones on.

tarox all round, guessing thats discs and pads then.

but the way i see it, the brakes are good already, all replacing the discs and pads are going to do for me is reduce the amount of fade from repeated use over the standard setup, surely they cant get worse than standard(hope not)

dont waste your money, check this out guys...

Leon Cupra Mk2 brake conversion - SEAT Cupra.net - SEAT Forum

identical setup (in red) but £555 all in.

:eek: That is a total bargain imo (coming from someone that paid full whack for JKM's kit!) :eek: Good find.

have you fitted the jkm brake setup yet, whats it like, or are you still bedding her in

tarox all round, guessing thats discs and pads then.

but the way i see it, the brakes are good already, all replacing the discs and pads are going to do for me is reduce the amount of fade from repeated use over the standard setup, surely they cant get worse than standard(hope not)

With the above setup, and dot 4 whatever super brake fluid, within a few laps of Oulton Park the brakes didnt work anymore. I got fade on normal roads too. I wasnt impressed. Thats just my findings after doing 30k in my own car. By comparison, I have never ever had fade in the Fabia, running identical 312mm Tarox G88's and Strada pads.

Hmmmm, thats not pleasing, ive emailed awesome to see if they can change the pads before they mail them(if they havent already), if not ill just try them out and hope that you just had a dodgy batch, lol

the prob musta been in the brake fluid or the pad. so i can narrow down a prob if it arises, ive got dome dot 5.1 to put in at the same time as the discs and pads, so if it fades its defo the pads.

gutted now, i originally had neuspeed drilled 312s on order with ebc red stuff, but they discs were gonna take a while to arrive and u cant use red stuff on drilled discs apparently as it induces cracks in the pad, so thought id take up they're ten percent offer on zero sixty discs and tarox strada pads. hopefully the impatiece wont come back to bite me in the ***

saying that, i have just done a search on briskoda reference those strada pads, and the feedbak seemed to be very good. everyone seemed to be running tarox g88 and strada pads and thinks they are awesome, i got different discs but they're the same size just without the same amount of grooves, but also have dimples in for the gas expansion. hopefully ill have the same results

have you fitted the jkm brake setup yet, whats it like, or are you still bedding her in

Been on there a few thousand miles now and once bedded in, they are amazingly good for the money. Having jumped back in a standard VRS with the 312mm's the difference is stark. 345mm setup appears to be fade free (not tracked it though) and bite from cold (less impressive aspect of many of the previous big brake kits ive used) is superb!.

Difference is so great infact that Ive just done a brake conversion on our other car as everytime I jumped in that to pop up the shops - i'd be standing up on the pedal just to stop it

Lee

soooo hard to resist the temptation, will wait out on that. how'd you manage 36 mpg on a ru with all that power, thats awesome. im getting 36 tops with cruise control on for a long run wih blufin running alot less pwr than yourself(thats motorway run)

soooo hard to resist the temptation, will wait out on that. how'd you manage 36 mpg on a ru with all that power, thats awesome. im getting 36 tops with cruise control on for a long run wih blufin running alot less pwr than yourself(thats motorway run)

Thats just what it seems to settle at given a long steady run - good mapping I guess.

that is good for the power you are putting out though to be fair thats pretty much factory std, you defo cant argue with that,

all i do is when im offon a long motorway slog, ireset to factory settings, and keep thr bluefin module in the car so i can change it if i get fed up. is your revo switchable