V8 brake upgrade and near side front output shaft seal. Steve

2005 2.7 TDV6 HSE, ongoing project.
1998 Volvo V70 R auto FWD, mothballed future project.
1999 BMW Z3 (owned from new) garage queen.

Good luck. The brake upgrade is like night and day, you won’t look back. 2006 2.7 TDV6 HSE in Cairns Blue.

Well I got the seal and the fronts done, took me an age to get the brake hose retaining bracket bolt out!! Then the callipers were in a worse state than I thought so took longer to clean up, I was going to paint them silver to match the new brackets but ended up giving then a coat of Matt Black for now as I could blend it into the rust better.

The old discs were in a bit of a state.



And now.



Hopefully we’ll get a dry day soon to do the rears? Thunder storms on the way. Steve

2005 2.7 TDV6 HSE, ongoing project.
1998 Volvo V70 R auto FWD, mothballed future project.
1999 BMW Z3 (owned from new) garage queen.

Good job I’m going to replace my front disks next month or so just finished replacing front and rear diff oil,Had my gearbox transfer box done about 4 months ago so just want to finish it off with the diffs.

Nice. Is this just a case of calipers and disks or do you need new carriers?

New caliper brackets required for the larger discs, same for the rears. Steve

2005 2.7 TDV6 HSE, ongoing project.
1998 Volvo V70 R auto FWD, mothballed future project.
1999 BMW Z3 (owned from new) garage queen.

Iomegas wrote:

Good job I’m going to replace my front disks next month or so just finished replacing front and rear diff oil,Had my gearbox transfer box done about 4 months ago so just want to finish it off with the diffs.

Cheers Devon. I dont even know what size mine are but I did a volvo s89 with xc90 brakes and it made a hellish difference. Be interested to see how this pans out

I’ll let you know how it performs.

Mine were 317mm, these are 337mm the largest disc size for standard callipers, next stage requires Brembo callipers. Steve

2005 2.7 TDV6 HSE, ongoing project.
1998 Volvo V70 R auto FWD, mothballed future project.
1999 BMW Z3 (owned from new) garage queen.

What size wheels are over them?
Any difference in pots or is it all single?
Sorry for all the questions, too many people go for speed and forget about other components, its nice to see this being done

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No problem mate. I’m running the standard 19” wheels the V8 conversion requires minimum of 18” I believe? So it’s the small hands sinario 😆

You reuse the original callipers which are two piston on the front not sure on rears haven’t done them yet.

I know what you mean, it’s a very heavy machine to stop 😳 first time I tried to stop from 70 on the local ring road was a bit butt clenching😳 I thought then I needed to reset my braking distances for this vehicle.

My Volvo is 1.5 ton and 300bhp and stopped very well on 302mm single piston fronts. Steve

2005 2.7 TDV6 HSE, ongoing project.
1998 Volvo V70 R auto FWD, mothballed future project.
1999 BMW Z3 (owned from new) garage queen.

Yeah I noticed mines a bit worrying to slow down when tanking on.... Mine also appears to have warped fronts ( odd as the garage put them on just before we picked it up ) so I may look for an upgrade but I dont yet know the size of mine. I am on 20's atm but I have been looking at 22's so clearance shouldnt be an issue.

What ovlov do you have? Lovely motors they are, the s80 was the second best car ( the RRS being best ) we have had. A mate of mine is orgonising some record breaker for volvos soon, 600 of them on a track or something.

Bertbuckie wrote:

What size wheels are over them?
Any difference in pots or is it all single?
Sorry for all the questions, too many people go for speed and forget about other components, its nice to see this being done

Devon Z wrote:

My Volvo is 1.5 ton and 300bhp and stopped very well on 302mm single piston fronts.

For a given speed, your RRS will be carrying 40% more kinetic energy than your Volvo irrespective of engine power.

I think it's also worth remembering that LR will have to consider how the brakes work in hot climates, silly-cold conditions, when off road (using the brakes in traction control to control wheel spin), giving the "chauffeur braking feel", etc., and design the brakes to deal with it all. For the standard RRS models, having ultimate braking bite on the motorway was probably not at the top of their list. I found an Evoque I had on loan once had excellent brakes with real bite so LR can do it, but the Evoque will have different design priorities to the RRS.

My old TDV8 had the 4-pot Brembos as standard and even that didn't feel as good on the brakes as our old Skoda Octavia. It never made me think "I'm not going to stop" but it never had the top of pedal bite that a lot of ordinary cars have. Don't get me wrong, I could chuck that down a fast road and give the brakes some serious welly and they never let me down. But they never had confidence-inspiring bite on the pedal. I just learned to drive around it and accept it.  2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Col wrote:

Bertbuckie wrote:

What size wheels are over them?
Any difference in pots or is it all single?
Sorry for all the questions, too many people go for speed and forget about other components, its nice to see this being done

You could always go for the six pot Brembos with 380mm discs, same as the S/C, Powerful UK do a conversion kit for about 1K or used to.

Cheers
Col

They still do, Col.
https://www.powerfuluk.com/vehicles/range-...ipers.html

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Needs 20 inch rims, however, to fit over them. 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed