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Offline tsr_adi

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brake upgrade
« on: 18 January 2011, 22:55 »
A mate has offered me some caliper carriers that'l apparently allow me to upgrade from 239mm discs to 256mm discs. But I thought 16v's had their own hubs, and the carriers were used on G60s as they have 16v hubs but use the carriers to fit 280mm discs. If I fit these carriers can I fit 256mm discs or will this not work?


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Re: brake upgrade
« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2011, 10:50 »
239mm bearing carriers have the brake carriers cast into them, so you'll need to fit MK2 256 or 280 bearign carrtiers to fit them. you can also find these on 4 stud higher spec mk3 (mk3 cabrios good source in scrappy) corrado, passat, various seat models etc. basically if its 4 stud vw/seat with 256 or 280 brakes then they'll work, the exception are polo, lupo and arosa.

256 and 280 carriers are very similar, just the 280 ones bit thicker and poke out further, mk3 GTI/16v/VR6 pre-96 are ideal donors for 280mm calipers n carriers and they're getting common in scrappies now :)
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