Tarox Super Sport 345mm Front Brake Kit - MK7/7.5 GTI/Golf R

Tarox Super Sport 345mm Front Brake Kit - MK7/7.5 GTI/Golf R

The Super Sport is an evolution of the original Sport kit. With the recent surge in the performance of Saloons such as the M3 and S4 and the arrival of formidable ‘hot hatches’ such as the VW Golf R and Ford Focus RS. TAROX developed a brand new caliper – the B360-8. Alongside the B34GT 10 from our motorsport range this new caliper allows us to offer incredibly formidable kits capable of being used on the road or track. The Super Sport series of kits feature disc sizes between 340mm and 370mm but when possible will still fit behind OE wheels.

These hugely capable kits will offer a huge amount of extra stopping power, better pedal feel and modulation, and can often reduce un-sprung weight increasing all aspects of handling while looking very striking. With amazing road usability and a proven record in competition the Super Sport kit is a necessary upgrade for the serious driver.

As with all TAROX kits the Super Sport integrates with all modern day driving assistants such as ECS, ABS and dynamic driving aid.

• Hand assembled calipers machined from the highest quality billet alloy
• Heat treated two piece discs in either Sport Japan, F2000 or D95
• Machined alloy mounting brackets with bolts
• Braided & coated brake lines
  

Foundation for Excellence 

We always start with the absolute highest quality raw materials. The bare cast iron blanks, that are the foundation of any of all our performance rotors, are always European sourced from the best foundries and, where available, using a cast with the highest possible carbon content. From this base we can then apply processes which we have been perfecting for 33 years.

Our first process is always heat treatment; known to offer big improvements to how cast iron behaves. The benefits are great but so is the time-cost and infrastructure involved, and TAROX unique in this approach.

What the metal industry experts say about the benefits of
heat treatment:

The heat treatment of gray irons can considerably alter the matrix microstructure with little or no effect on the size and shape of the graphite achieved during casting.

‘’Gray iron is normalized by being heated to a temperature above the transformation range, held at this temperature for a period of about one hour per inch of maximum section thickness, and cooled in still air to room temperature. Normalizing may be used to enhance mechanical properties, such as hardness and tensile strength’’- Source

‘’Normalizing heat treatments for castings:  The process can be employed on cast products to homogenize grain structure, improve machinability and response to subsequent heat treating processes. The normalizing process is commonly applied to carbon and alloy steel castings in order to refine grain structure and produce a more uniform distribution of carbon content throughout the material after the casting process. During normalizing, castings are typically heated to a temperature slightly above the austenitizing temperature to promote atomic mobility that enhances homogenization of the steel. The final result is a casting that will machine more easily and have more uniform micro-structure. Normalized castings respond to heat-treating better and have more uniform mechanical properties.’’ – Source

CNC work

Each new application gets a custom designed CNC program for every TAROX rotor design, to ensure any modifications do not affect structural integrity. For instance, when designing a program for our Sport Japan brake rotor – which features fully drilled holes – it is essential to not fully drill where a hole may foul an internal structure vane while ensuring as many holes as possible, allowing air to flow in between the channels of the internal cooling structure. This is again a time consuming and costly process and one of the reasons performance rotor manufactures only use a dimple – which does not allow air to move from the surface in to the internal cooling channels. Any drilled hole on a TAROX rotor is countersunk to resist against cracking.

Our G88 has a unique look and amazing road performance. It features 40 radial slots on each side of the rotor which are channeled using a custom machine designed and manufactured in house. This allows us to achieve a surface that does not compromise pad life while still offering the performance of a drilled rotor and the structural benefits of a slotted rotor.

Final balance and polish

The final stage and one that really sets a TAROX rotor apart is the hand finishing. Before being shipped, each and every brake rotor is placed on a specialist machine which perfectly balances it to 0.001 – ensuring the flattest disc on the market. The process of achieving a perfectly flat surface not only enables the brake pad to bed in quickly and more effectively, but reduces chances of the rotor developing lateral oscillation (run out). A perfectly machined part with a high shine and oozing quality is just icing on the cake.

FEATURES:

• Not an off-the-shelf brake kit. These are tailored brake conversions

• Offer a decrease in crucial un-sprung weight
• Each caliper is built and tested by hand at our Italian factory
• Calipers are offered with a standard hard anodised finish or custom anodised colors
• Discs are often two piece and all are machined from the finest quality European steel billet

SPECS:

• Axle (Front/Rear): F
• Caliper Model: B34GT-8
• Disc Dimensionss: 345x30
• Stud number: 5
• Solid/Vented: V - Vented
• Replacement Disc Code: 0285
• Replacement Brake Pad Code: SP0002
• Disc Configuration: 1 Pc
• Minimum wheel size: 17" Pcs