16v Brake upgrades???

[vwdeviant 0]

OK we all know the VR's get the 312/280 upgrades...

 

What "Commercially" available upgrades are about for us Valvers?

 

I see the Cupra Disc and Boxster S caliper front is possible but what about the rear upgrades?

 

Surely putting big calipers upfront either affects the Bias or the braking performance f-r?

 

:confused4:

[BigTartanJudge 0]

I think you can fit 280 or 288mm brakes to the rear, see here:

 

http://www.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewto ... 23&t=68661

 

Potentailly, I may be wrong here, but you may be able to fit Audi 80 Girling 60 twin-pot calipers to the rear as well. I know you can fit them to the front as I wrote a reply to a thread on this very topic a few years back, see below:

 

"I have looked into this in some detail and AFAIK, this conversion involves using the Audi S2 Girling G60 twin-pot calipers and carriers which will fit straight on existing G60 brakes and brake lines. It may be that you need to change the end fittings of G60 brake lines to fit directly to the caliper. I think VR6 stainless brake lines, a la Goodridge or similar as these are the same as for the Audi 5000T CS Quattro (or Audi 100C Quattro in Europe), which is what the original Girling G60 calipers were fitted to before the S2 Coupe models. This and some competence to fit and overhaul front brakes is all that is required! They will fit all stock 15" VW alloys and give a much improved braking feel and stopping power, I understand ! You may need to change to the bigger 23.81mm master cylinder off the Audi the callipers come from, otherwise you end up with a longer pedal travel because the 2-pot design takes a bit more fluid to operate"

 

 

Further information may be found here,

 

http://www.bira.org/members/avg.html

http://www.bira.org/information.html

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=994377

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1308340

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=652763

 

The original Audi Girling brake upgrade threads:

 

http://www.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewto ... it=girling

http://www.the-corrado.net/.archive/forum/viewto ... it=girling

 

For sale thread over on edition38 listing all what is required etc, unfortunately, think they are now sold:

 

http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.p ... pic=184751

 

You could also fit a 280mm 4-pot kit from either Wilwood (MidiLite, Dynalite or SL4) or Hi-spec (Hi-spec are really good brakes and about £480 for the kit). These two kits will both fit under most 15" wheels due to the compact design of the calipers. There was a set of Wilwood front brakes for sale few weeks back on here and they went for about £250. They sometimes come up for sale over on edition38 forum. Wilwood also do twin-pot billet rear 256mm conversions:

 

http://www.hispecbrake.co.uk/Conversion ... 5%20B4.htm

http://www.rallydesign.co.uk/index.php? ... 62_563_577 (official importer and stockist of Wilwood brake-kits in UK)

 

HTH

[boost monkey 0]

would you want something bigger than 280s? I already headbutt the sunvisor :/

[Toad 0]

I like my G60/VR 280mm front brakes on my valver, and think tey're adequate for a standard car in the UK, but they do struggle a bit pulling the car back from 120ish, and after experiencing brembos on Junkies and Marcu's cars I was seriously impressed at thier abilities from high speeds.

 

saying that I'm also a firm believer that you can over brake the cars if they're going to be pootling round at low speeds.

[boost monkey 0]

My Jetta 8v had brembo max discs and pagid fast road pads on purely because I had sold my Golf, and the J's brakes needed doing and these were still kicking around!

 

Deffo agree with Toad - my Jetta stopped wayyyy better than it went after that :lol: