steved

Talk to Autobahn Performance about S8 retrofits...they just upgraded an S8 setup to a Movit kit as the S-brakes did not perform as expected.

As we found out with Bart's car, the US market and Euro market are 1 year out of synch. For A8's through 99 with cast iron knuckles, there's one kit. For Bart's 2000 A8 with aluminum knuckles, the calipers and brackets are different. No knuckle mods are required with any Audi kits. All Audi kits are TUV approved (I don't think this is true with the Alcons). With regard to the calipers, they are indeed manufactured by Brembo but to Porsche's specs (different thru-bolts, pistons and seals). Porsche's rotors are much more durable with better cooling than Coleman or other aftermarket units.

It's too bad we have such low speed limits in this country or we'd get a better perspective of which kits hold up in the long run. Movit has thousands of kits on the roads in Europe and does weekly testing at their local track, Hockenheim. They sell more Audi kits in a month than most tuners sell in a year....an average of 1 Audi kit per day since the beginning of the year. Expect to see interesting new kits later this year from Movit including more rear applications and hopefully new Ceramic Composite disks (1/2 the weight of stock rotors with 100k+ mile service life) with nice yellow calipers capable of 13m/sec2 deceleration numbers. SD<p>Steve D'Gerolamo