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were ceramics an option from the factory on the rear this car ?

Only the fronts I believe.

so is there another option the get the back end looking the same ?

I believe the ceramic rears from the R8 will fit (might need some adjusting). Are you fitting them to a B5?

yes ive currently got the ap setup on my b5 with 362 front discs and 6 pot calipers and on the back they are 343 mm discs with a 4 pot caliper and a seperate handbrake caliper, i know movit do a full kit but i want to be able to use my 18 inch track wheels and they are ridiculasly expensive.

Whilst the R8 rears would fit under 18" wheels the front ceramic option comes in at a larger 380x38 and would then require 19" wheels, this is for both B7 and R8 from what I've been looking into.

18 " wheels will fit over 380mm discs.

you may well be able to fit the r8 rear setup physically but the pistons are sized for a rear engined car and will be far too powerful for a front engined car.

Fit a brake bias adjuster?

jimbo1234567 wrote:18 " wheels will fit over 380mm discs.

you may well be able to fit the r8 rear setup physically but the pistons are sized for a rear engined car and will be far too powerful for a front engined car.

+1 was about to say the balance will be shot to hell.

Given that you have to tweak the brake ecu to let it know it has ceramics I would suspect that this would not cope to well with ceramics on the rear as it'll assume that they are conventional discs.

on the b5 i can see that there will be a coding option for ceramics but as long as the piston sizes are balanced i cant see there being a problem. on the ap,s the pistons in the rear calipers are tiny which obviously stops the rear end getting too much stopping power.

Is this what you are looking for
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Audi ... _45wt_1257

£5,600

That's what I thought

bam_bam wrote:£5,600

And that is just for the rears!!!!

Oddly, she has the fronts for the same price though.

jimbo1234567 wrote:18 " wheels will fit over 380mm discs.

I might be wrong but I seem to remember reading that the disc isn't the problem, it was the larger heatshields used on the ceramic option.