G-60 BRAKE UPGRADE:

[CHARLES DOUBET]

Kneal,e, and Brett:

Have 17" wheels, so that is not a problem.
BIRA only shows kits for the A-8.
Don't know what 'Panorama' is.
Please, advise.
Thanks

C. B. DOUBET
Free To Be Where We Want To Be


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kneale Brownson" <kneale at coslink.net>
To: <brett at cloud9.net>; "CHARLES DOUBET" <Cdoubet at msn.com>
Cc: "200q20v" <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: G-60 BRAKE UPGRADE:


> Yeah, but you also need larger wheels than the 15-inchers supplied
> originally by Audi.  Makes the use of a larger non-UFO rotor twice as
> costly unless you already increased wheel size.
> 
> 
> At 09:19 PM 9/23/2006 -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> >
> >On Sep 23, 2006, at 6:43 PM, CHARLES DOUBET wrote:
> >
> >>   Looking for caliper brackets and larger rotors for the G-60  
> >> calipers.
> >
> >There's no such thing.
> >
> >> Not worth the expense to do a full Brambo or Porsche upgrade unless  
> >> I can find a good used set.
> >
> >You have the correct struts for the BIRA brackets which aren't that  
> >expensive; get the calipers from a Porsche parts recycler.  There are  
> >several listed in the back of Panorama, for example.
> >
> >You should be able to do the conversion for substantially less than  
> >most of the "tuner" kits from ECS and others (most of which are just  
> >copies of the BIRA brackets, from what I've been told.)
> >
> >Brett
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