paver

I have had OEM steels on my PCCB car a couple of weeks ago. I only drove them about 50 street miles and took them off. They seemed perfectly fine.
Well, today my PCA region club president who has a .2 RS told me, this is a direct quote, "steel and ceramic brakes are NOT interchangeable with center lug. We tried it the other day at the Porsche dealer, they also have a tech Bulletin on it—it requires machining to fit."
This made me a little paranoid about getting out on the track at full speed since I don't have a ton of experience. But I know the steels were fine for the little bit of street driving I did. What could he be talking about?

24Chromium

Bull****. I've got a 2011 997.2 RS that came with PCCBs. I tracked it maybe twice with the lightweight rotors. Then switched to steel rotors and never looked back.

paver

Lar, oem steel?

24Chromium

And, I've had steel OEM, GiroDisc and PFC rotors on the car.

paver

That's what I thought, I mean I have tracked many many days with brembo steel. I just thought he was saying something about the OEM steels....I have no idea what he was thinking

GT3DE

he has no idea what he is talking about. the calipers are the same, hubs are the same - everything is the SAME.

TRAKCAR

Yup, same I changed it on mine take off put on, done.

mooty

it's been done over and over.
other than color, all same.

LVDell

Maybe the yellow paint on the calipers has some magical powers?

paver

Porsche hopes it has the power to open his wallet extra wide.

LVDell

10 GT3

Sounds like someone is trying to help a parts manager with figuring out a way to sell some 4K PCCBs replacements that have been sitting on the shelf for years. BTW, for such a blatant lie I would vote the President out.

Honestly, has anyone ever actually bought a replacement set of ceramics?


Please note that the PCCB and steel front rotors are not interchangeable on 997.1 GT3s. For that particular generation, the front brakes are larger and use different calipers with the ceramic option. Since the 997.2 steel brakes came with the same side rotors and exact same front calipers as the previous ceramic option, the 997.2 steel front rotors are a direct bolt-ion for the earlier generation with ceramics.

paver

4K?
Suncoast now has them for a .2 at $18,100/set

skxf430

Those are the gold plated ceramics.

DC640

For that money.. I would get brembo gtr kit and ditch Porsche stuff