Several months now with the Prodigywerks FS6 grabbing 340mm Clubsport S 2 piece pseudo-floating rotors and I'm ready to share my thoughts if anyone is still interested how this kit performs.
I will only briefly mention that the kit arrived very nicely packed and it looked like candy
. Inspecting the calipers and you get the sense of a serious sturdy kit. The vented pistons truly mean business, braided lines, pads with insulating shims, pad sitting shims (one gone, 3rd image, I'll replace it). Things that you don't even dream at this price point. There was a small issue with the provided bolt. My car is a Golf 5 GTI and the bolts were very long, specific to MQB platform. This was sorted by using the bolts that the car had (support offered almost in real-time).
Brake feel is good, not as good as my GR Yaris (Endless MX72 Plus pads) or ex-Megane RS275 running fully-floating 355m rotors rubbed by Pagid RSL29, but these are cars that really blew my mind in terms of braking feel. But miles better than stock and better than anything else I experienced except the 2. The pedal is not how firm I would like but it is by no means mushy. The stopping power is immense, you can lean on them really hard.
Now what really impressed me. I recently ran 2 track day events. The track is a GP like course. Long straights (950m), hard braking. I fitted Project Mu Racing999 pads, which are their most aggressive pad. I would not recommend this pad to anyone that is not running big aero and full slicks because they are really grabby. But anyhow ... true racing pads. After 2 days at the track the pad were obliterated. Seeing that the pad turned from the usual Project Mu blue-green tint to literally ashes and after taking the pads out I saw that the friction material crumbled, cracked and chipped I was thinking that the calipers would need a full rebuild. But they were unphased. The temperature reading on the caliper only got to 170C and the dust boots look intact. For sure the vented pistons did their job.
Long story short... for me until I win the lottery and get a Radical SR3
I won't consider anything else in the brakes upgrade department. I don't even think if you spend a factor of 2x you wont get such a capable braking system. Honestly after I decided to use the mk5 GTI as a trackday car I was considering swapping the FS6 Prodigywerks kit for a Stoptech or AP Racing kit because I was fearing it is more a showoff kit "6 pistons, BBK, I have big balls" kind
. But after seeing what work horse they are.... I went ahead and ordered Endless CC-Rg pads
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PS: because the pads pattern is really common, shared with AP Racing cp7040d61 almost all race pads costs way less than what I was used to pay.