joe_quax

Hello AMG Fans,

long time no see
Last winter Ive bought a GTR and started to modify the car.
I've installed a custom made 2way suspension and fitted the car with the Black Series 285 and 335 tyres.
For me it was very important to create a setup that I can drive without having issues with scraping the wheelhouses..
The power remains stock because I dont want to have any warranty issues.

With best regards

Bloom_Phaze

Yes…yes you do sir, you have BIG ***** indeed and a wallet to match. As long as it’s money you’ve earned that’s amazing.

Your driving skills are pretty damn good, far better than mine. Give it to Misha and see what he thinks as he basically lives at the NBRing.

Guarantee you though, I’d be too scared to take any of may past and or present cars on the ring, I’d straight up factually crash it and I consider myself a good driver on the day to day context, just not on that level lol.

You would have to be replacing pads, brake rotors and wheels, not to mention very frequent fluid changes given the fact that a regular Ring driver certainly does…my wife would F’ing crush my ***** to pebbles if she knew the general hobby costs of maintenance for the season. Yikes.

Thanks for sharing though, it was really awesome to watch and I shared your excitement. Keep it up, I’ll live my ring dreams vicariously through such vids lol.

joe_quax

I would never handover my car to misha, he makes good videos and great content about the ring but his driving skills are naahhhhhh ... :P

AMG 17GT

Well done. Those suspension tweaks worked. Great balance on that Pro.

The audio was muted when that POS Volkswagen got in your way lol. I can only imagine what you said.

bhamcarnut

Wow. That was awesome to watch. Thank you for posting!

boosted20v

Great video, great high camera angle, great driving. Really let's you understand what's going on!

joe_quax

thank you very much for the positive feedback !

Skilly

love that with a few tweaks towards the drivers preferences and you could easily be in sub 7 min timing - the Porsche and the VW slowed you down by at least a couple of seconds.

G. P

Very impressive, Congrats

UCIMBZ

Why?

dlefty

@joe_quax love it, great driving and great to see you get such an amazing car out there and doing it right!
couple questions:
1)which steel brake set up did you go with?
2)did you run it at all prior to swapping to the Black Series wheel/tire combo? Curious if you can describe the differences….

Bloom_Phaze

Ill be sure to pass it along…

Constant.12

It's no use giving me the best car because I can't do like a professional driver. But if I have enough money, I would still consider buying it.

joe_quax

I am using Racing Brake Discs with Rotation (left and right) and endless ma045b pads front and rear. I think in the US you can go for girodisc rotors.
Yes, with regular Cup 2 tyres in stock dimensions (275/325) I am 6-7 seconds slower BTG Time.

I decided to go for steel because ceramic pads wear out pretty fast. If you go for aftermarket pads on the ceramic discs the discs wear out very quickly aswell.
With my steel setup I need two set of pads front/rear per season. After one season I change rotors, so after the second set of pads I start fresh again with new discs and pads.
I have to say that I have additional brake cooling installed on the rear. The front is already very good on the PRO. The loufers help to let the hot air from the wheelarch escape and reduce pressure aswell.

In the end its a lot cheaper to go with steel and the performance is better. With the ceramics you think you have a great breaking performance because the first initial bite is quite aggressive. With the Steel Setup its more balanced and organic. I dont know if I described correctly because my english is not the best, sorry

The Black Series has special ceramic discs made by brembo to sustain the heat better and last longer. They call them Dyatom. Very nice but very expensive.

I hope I could answer your question

cheers joe

Skilly

that's epic - a 7 second gain by changing the OD of the tires!

MrMicko

With less traffic you would go under 7 min easily! Where did you get Endless pads in Europe?

joe_quax

7 seconds because of the compound. The stock tyre is a regular cup 2 and I went for the cup 2 r equipped on the black series which is in my opinion the best performance tyre available at the moment if you are trying to do a fast lap on a circuit.

You can get the endless brakepads in nearly every racing shop or on the internet in europe.
Just make sure that you get the correct pads (ma045b) which are for endurance racing or high performance street vehicle track use.

cheers joe

LAsunset

Phoenix Racing FTW! Wipperman, was it?

This is dope! You're a good driver! Always love 'Leife. Drove there recently.

Y.Haider

Do u have to deal with alot of brake dust with the setup u currently have?

i will definitely get giro disc’s here for rotors but im still unsure on what pads ill go with.. trying to have the least amount of brake dust

AMG GTR Pro

Brake dust is a byproduct of high performance steel brakes. If you are looking for maximum braking track performance you can't be concerned with brake dust or squeaking.

Ceramics are much better but the replacement costs......

Fabsan84

Haaa finally a well driven GTR ! Great content, i'll be glad to meet you soon there !

hyperion667

Zair goot mein herr!!

joe_quax

Hey, brakedust never has been important to me. For sure you have dust if your brakes are working a lot

Y.Haider

it hurts when u take 2-3 hours to clean the car up and have all 4 wheels spotless… and just a 30-40 min drive covers up the wheels in dust.. i bought the car with 9k miles on it so im sure its still factory brake pads..

will look into brake pads by giro

Fabsan84

Endless makes pad without much dust, but they cost heavy and are hard on the disks !