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To all who have done this upgrade from a 4.4 to 4.8iS factory brake system, is it worth it? I have an opportunity to buy used but good condition rotors and calipers and pads for $750 CDN and am wondering if it is worth the spend?
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I swear, my cars are like a girlfriend. Sometimes its a rough ride, sometimes its smooth motorin'. Sometimes she doesnt like how i treat her and sometimes i dont like how she behaves. BUT at the end of the day, she loves it when I am inside her. _______________________ '91 850i '05 X5 4.4i '09 Clubman S |
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I may be willing to part the Dinan front & rear Brembo upgraded kit from my 4.6iS
Literally just put new pads front & rear a month ago (front calipers take 4 pads each for a total of 8). Massive red Brembo calipers and drilled 2-piece rotors. Also stainless steel hoses.
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My question still is, is it worth it? The factory brakes are quite good as is, I find.
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I swear, my cars are like a girlfriend. Sometimes its a rough ride, sometimes its smooth motorin'. Sometimes she doesnt like how i treat her and sometimes i dont like how she behaves. BUT at the end of the day, she loves it when I am inside her. _______________________ '91 850i '05 X5 4.4i '09 Clubman S |
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I can't comment as of yet from first hand experience..... but I will have some freshened up 4.8is calipers and s/s lines mounted up in a couple weeks. The calipers are getting blasted and coated at the moment. Also of note, I am trying out ECS's sealed brass caliper guides. This gets rid of the rubber guides. The ECS caliper pins travel in a machined brass housing that has seals on either end. They are designed to create a much more precise, rigid braking movement. Less flex and more square. They claim to closely approximate the feel of a mono block multi-piston caliper, at least as closely as a floating caliper can. Here's a link for those intrested. https://www.ecstuning.com/b-ecs-part...003326ecs02~a/
I decided to do the retrofit as I have gathered that they are a nice upgrade. I know they are a heavier package, also adding weight to the undesirable side of the equation... un-sprung mass. But, for the money and ease of install I went this route. I wanted to upgrade to something, but still be able to run my 18" snows. There are a few upgrade options using OEM Brembo calipers from Land Rover Sports and the like. A quick search on here yields a few threads for a couple different retrofits, including direct bolt ons from the e70, e85 X5///M. Some of them require the use of 20" wheels permanently, which may be fine for many in the sunbelt. I will see how my 3.0 feels with the extra mass as well as a considerable increase in braking performance. I am really going to need some braking performance........ more to come.
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2005 X5 3.0, 6MT, Alpine White on Truffle Brown, Sport, Preim, and Cold Weather, Alpina Stainless Headers, AFe Intake, UUC SSK, OEM 87's, 3.64 Differential Swap,Performance Modified Euro 2 Tune, UUC LTW Flywheel and HD clutch, Bilstein B12 Suspension kit Future mods ZHP/Schrick Cam Shaft upgrade, Operation code name:Doppelschrauben-Kompressor Wife's Ride: 2011 e70 X5 351 M///Sport. Also in the fold: 2004 X3 3.0, 6MT, Black Sapphire on Terracotta, port, Premium, Cold Weather. |
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I just did this a few months ago and will say it's worth it. Your price seems a bit high as I think I paid about $150 for all 4 calipers and brackets (ebay). I put new jurid/textar pads & zimmerman rotors on and rebuilt the calipers, which I think was about $300-350 for a total of $450-500. Might be higher for your since you're up north.
Definitely much improved braking. The new brakes grab much more than the old, but I attribute that to crappy dustless pads that were on the old system more than the larger brakes. I notice the biggest difference in fade when towing a trailer (~2500 lbs). I had some fade on the old brakes while towning, and none on the new setup, and she stops NOW!
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Ok good to know. On all accounts. I kinda thought $750 was too costly so I shy'd away.
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I swear, my cars are like a girlfriend. Sometimes its a rough ride, sometimes its smooth motorin'. Sometimes she doesnt like how i treat her and sometimes i dont like how she behaves. BUT at the end of the day, she loves it when I am inside her. _______________________ '91 850i '05 X5 4.4i '09 Clubman S |
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So I installed my new (to me calipers and rotors with new Juris brake pads on used factory rotors (I had turned) and now my pedal definitely is not as firm as before and seems the brakes take longer to stop than my factory 4.4i calipers with factory pads and factory rotors.
I fully rebuilt the calipers. It was fun doing it actually. Painted and heated in oven. Inspected pistons and all rubber boots/sleeves and bought new guide pins and proper brake assembly fluid (Holy crap does that make things slide soooo easily during install of parts). Perhaps I'm doing the brake bleed on my x5 wrong. I don't need to use INPA or DIS5.7 to activate anything, do I? I figured it was a normal bleed where you start at right rear and then left rear, right front, left front and have a celebratory drink... Not so much this time Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
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I swear, my cars are like a girlfriend. Sometimes its a rough ride, sometimes its smooth motorin'. Sometimes she doesnt like how i treat her and sometimes i dont like how she behaves. BUT at the end of the day, she loves it when I am inside her. _______________________ '91 850i '05 X5 4.4i '09 Clubman S |
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So, the next day I brought my X5 to my local Indy and paid for them to do a bleed with machine/pressurized fluid. Zero change.
So I bought 2 new Zimmermann rotors. I just installed them and STILL notice more travel in brake pedal is needed than for a single piston caliper. I HATE this. The 4.4i has such SHORT pedal travel before brakes engage very well. Pedal travel is 50% longer now before brakes engage well. Even with new Jurid pads, new Zimmermann rotors and fully rebuilt calipers (and these guide pins are slippery since I used the Raybestos Hydraulic brake assembly fluid). I will NEVER use anything on the guide pins again other than that assembly fluid. So far I don't feel the 4.8iS brake system stops the vehicle any faster than the factory 4.4i brake setup BUT I have to do another brake bleed. I do not haul anything in my x5 nor do I race my x5. I live in a climate where summers can be between 25 and 30 deg C daily but winters are -40 to +20 C (yes you read that correctly) so I rely on great stopping power all year. Sent from my Pixel 3 using Tapatalk
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I swear, my cars are like a girlfriend. Sometimes its a rough ride, sometimes its smooth motorin'. Sometimes she doesnt like how i treat her and sometimes i dont like how she behaves. BUT at the end of the day, she loves it when I am inside her. _______________________ '91 850i '05 X5 4.4i '09 Clubman S |
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