Re: Audi -> VW brake swap?

[Bruce Bell <bbell@csn.net>]

Forget the 4KQ brakes interchanging with the VW - Bolt holes (for wheel) are
on a different circle 108 VS 100mm on the VW. As Robert Phillips suggests
the 4KS brakes will prob. work. Watch out for 4KCS though as they have the
same bolt pattern as the 4KQ.

At 04:56 PM 1/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Jeff Loh wrote:
>
>> I was comparing the brakes on my cars the other day and wondered if that
>> would work. They *look* like they'd fit. It would be an alternative to
>> upgrading the stock, non-GTI brakes.
>
>Dunno about the calipers, I suspect they might be a little different, but 
>the parts store listed no brake rotors for my (ex) '87 4KS.  I told them 
>to look them up for an '87 GTi, and low and behold, they were identical 
>in every way.


>I'm not sure about the 4kq, but the 4KS would be the place to start 
>looking.  It has more in common with the VW Fox and other ancestry than 
>does the q.
>

Bruce Bell
bbell@csn.net