reman calipers? paging massive lee

[///M42 sport]

I'm refreshing my brake system and remembered massive lee saying before that a certain oem brand caliper was stiffer. just dont remember which one.

[frankie591]

I believe people seem to like the ATE calipers more than girling. I don't know why though.

[dannyyisntt]

ATE's are more desirable. I have an entire box of girlings if you want some

[frankie591]

ATE's are more desirable. I have an entire box of girlings if you want some

I've never heard a reason why, just that they are better.

Enlighten me?

[dannyyisntt]

http://spece30.com/forum/39-brakes-and-abs/8335-difference-between-ate-and-girling-calipers

They pretty much cover it there

[SpecM]

Anyone have any experiece with rebuilt cals from Centrix (sp?). A local Euro parts place has ATE rebuilds by Centrix for a good price, and they come with new brackets.

[SpecM]

^ anyone?

[bimma360]

^ can't help you there but bavauto has rebuilt ATE units for something like $53 each. They tell you who rebuilt them on their site. That price I believe also has the $10 core charge included. I just picked up a pair of Gerlings from them for $70 each with the $30 per caliper core charge. The Girlings came with everything, the carriers, the bolts, bleeder valves, everything. Not sure about the ATE's. I wont be able to lay my eyes on them though until this weekend.

[BraveUlysses]

Anyone have any experiece with rebuilt cals from Centrix (sp?). A local Euro parts place has ATE rebuilds by Centrix for a good price, and they come with new brackets.

I think it's "centric" and I see that they're available cheap on rockauto.com, but I can't tell for sure if they include the brackets or not. $31/ea + $20/ea (core).

I'd like to switch to ATE calipers if possible...I figure these brakes need to be rebuilt anyway so might as well switch to something that handles track duty better.

[madsedan]

Do you guys replace the rubber lines as well while you are doing it?

I'm getting a little bit of pad drag since installing the new pads/rotors and doing a flush and that typically means rebuild of the caliper but after doing a pair for one of my M3's years ago I swore I'd never do it again, what a pain in the ass, I'll buy reman's.