[s-cars] BBK parts accumulating

[Martin Kozaczek]

I'm doing it right now.  I have 996 C4 calipers with Apikol brackets on 5mm
spacers under 16" avus wheels.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you sure you can use 996 front calipers on a 16" Avus wheel? When I had
> 996 calipers over 320x30mm rotors, I did not have enough radial clearance
> to
> fit over 16" wheels- I tried 3 or 4 different ones, there was no way I was
> putting 16" wheels on the car. Maybe with smaller 314mm rotors.
>
> Taka
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, JAM <jscarstuff at charter.net> wrote:
>
> > I've seen Boxster S brakes used without a spacer with Avus.  From what I
> > recall, they weren't all that close.  The thing I like about the standard
> > Boxster brakes I have is the availability of stardard US A8 rotors which
> > are
> > used with this kit.
> > Jason
> > '95.5 S6 avant
> > '83 urq
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Martin Kozaczek" <mkozaczek at gmail.com>
> > To: "Andrew B" <andrew.sb at gmail.com>
> > Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 1:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] BBK parts accumulating
> >
> >
> > > You can use boxster S calipers with standard 16" avus wheels with a 5mm
> > > spacer.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Andrew B <andrew.sb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Are you sure you want Boxster Ss?  They require a special adapter (not
> > >> as common as the standard boxster) and from what I understand, you
> > >> cannot use 16" wheels.  With the standard boxsters you can use both.
> > >>
> > >> Otherwise, I found some good deals on ebay, the national "used-parts
> > >> search engines" and occasionally reman's from thepartsbin and other
> > >> garbage sites when looking for standard boxster calipers.
> > >>
> > >> -Andrew
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-Martin