E36 brake upgrades

[maxfield]

Just bought a 318 M sport touring for daily use and maybe the odd track day. No jokes about the engine as I have an M52 to drop in.

I've just replaced all the front suspension etc

It's ready for discs and pads all round, so may aswell upgrade at the same time.

Now I'm looking at brake upgrades, but whatever I find on the Internet so many people have so many different opinions.

From what I've read 330ci brakes bolt straight on and then they use an e36 m3 servo and master cylinder to help pedal travel.

Also anything for the back?

I will probably be using braided lines aswell.


Jamie

[DanThe]

Why not just use M3 all round?

[harry_p]

Tbh I'd probably fit m3 hubs and brakes.

3.0 m3 hubs will work with standard e36 or e30 wishbones, and you'll get 315mm disks and decent sized calipers which will work perfectly with an m3 master cylinder. I wouldn't worry too much about the rears to be honest, I'm not sure there are any off the shelf upgrades other than updated discs and pads. You'd need z3m arms to fit e36 m3 rear discs and calipers.

[harry_p]

Whoops, read that wrong, and thought you'd bought an msport compact hence the z3 stuff mentioned.

Still stands that I don't think anyone does anything bigger which is bolt on, but you should be able to pick up m3 rear trailing arms pretty easily.

[maxfield]

If there is not much to do to the rear I'll just put some discs and pads.

After more reading looks like M3 stuff is the way to go.

Thanks