Have been out and running after 3 to 4 hard braking, brak the car really bad , what have you in your car or run most of the original brakes
I remember stock brakes being more than decent. Last time you changed rotors, pads, and slightly more aggressive brake fluid?
Yes I can try to switch to Dot 5 brake fluid and some more aggressive brake pad
OEM Akebono seem to work the best overall after the track days I’ve done. The Brembos I tried ended up eating my rotors within 4 or 5 laps where as the OEM pads stopped better and lasted longer under stress. Maybe I got a bad set of pads, but that’s just how it worked out for me.
On my previous cars motul 5.1 fluid has been great. Also the stock s6 rotor and brake setup overall is pretty damn huge and effective for a car that size. Look up reviews for the car back in the day from 60-0 and it’s rather decent.
You could go with RS brakes (v8a6 did on the forum), but not worth the ROI imo unless you get a ridiculous deal. You will need bigger wheels to clear those as well. Also what tires are you running, that will have a huge impact on slowing you down, along eh acceleration and handling.
There are multiple OEM pad options that work well. Akebono is pretty good as mentioned along some of the others. Some people swear by Hawk, but I’ve never had the best experiences with them.
When I had my old s6 I had a brake shop that was offering to do fedora ds2500 pads in s6 shapes (fronts are unique and rare, rears are more typical shape). While I love those pads characteristics they squeak on my cayenne at slow speeds, so I doubt I’ll put them on a pure steet car again. However, If people are interested I could connect you with my contact.
you can also go for a brembo kit for the C6 A6. it has an 365mm or 385mm option. not cheap but bolt on.
there is also a cayenne kit that works too that another member used here. but needs some grinding work.
How much more expensive are those special pads vs OEM? I’m interested if it’s reasonable. Don’t think I’m going back to the track anytime soon, but would be good to have the option JIC.
Interesting, unless it’s a cayenne turbo s the rotors are 350mm, if it a turbo s it would be 380 and then carbon ceramics. My guess is the Porsche Cayenne brakes made by Brembo are stronger, more pistons.
My GTS has the 350mm brakes and it hauls the car down, but I wouldn’t say it was a drastically different to my old s6. Wouldn’t be worth the swap unless you went with the carbon ceramics and even then your biggest perk is no brake dust with I guess less fade during day to day driving.
I do think they still make an aftermarket brembo kit for the c6 s6, whcih I guess is worth looking into if your really unhappy with your stock setup. I’d probably go with c6 Rs6 brakes at that point if you could source them on eBay or the like without selling a kidney.
Edit: find these and you might be happy https://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php/796967-HUGE!!!-Brembo-bbk-upgrade-for-C6
There is no brembo upgrade for the S6, but that’s because the A6 already has one.
They now only have the 380mm offerings that should be more than enough, last time I looked it was $4-6k tho.
It’s the GT kits I’m talking about anyways. It’s a different caliper than stock Cayenne.
6 or 8 piston options and 380mm and 405mm options… oddly the 8 piston is on the 380mm option and 6 piston on the 405mm.
Right when I say for s6, that’s agnostic. I mean A6 or s6. You said cayenne brakes so just going off that, makes more sense based on what you said above though.
The 8 piston brakes would be wonderful or even 6 piston but not worth it imo on this car. Some people want more which is fine and if that’s the case go for it. if you don’t track I would say more important to drop serious weight with LW JHM rotors. Of course r oils be best to upgrade brakes to serious equipment, magnesium calipers, and LW rotors, but I question ROI at that point unless you don’t care.
If you haven’t changed the fluid, lines if they are crap, or good pads, and good tires, I wouldn’t recommend it
Unless you just want more bling. Not sure how much the the brembo gt weigh, but might be a consideration depending on rotor size.
If you want bling and some more performance go RS, Alcon , or any brembo GT offerings.
THis doesn’t account for brake fade of course, but scroll to specs of 100-0 and 60-0 for the c6 s6 cross review and c6 z06 cross review below. I believe they also mention braking in the reviews.