Re: brakes

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In a message dated 96-05-30 01:12:05 EDT, you write:

>Hey scott, Any more info on your brake upgrade? Porsche stuff right?
>
>Well It just occured to me that a Hub change to porsche might be the
>easiest way to do things . as far as caliper brackets ,bearing
>replacement. rotor varience. (offsets Sizes. PRICE?)
>
>I recall on my 84 urq (since sold) that this car had the largest size
>hub bearings of all the audis ( Iknow this because it ate a hub and I had
>to replace it !??$$  and a 5k wouldnt fit!)  This must be fo racing
>purposes.
>
>Do you know if any of these porsche (968,911t,etc.) hubs or bearings are
>close. I.E. machine a strut housing for a porsche hub? etc.?
>
>Is it true that WillWood makes a true bolt on BIG brake kit . 11 inch
>13 inch?   Seems I read that sportwheels in Co. sells it for big $$.
>
>
......   Well the kit is here, but the time isn't, darn that real job....
 The 13 inch rotors are
 1 3/8 thick with vents I can stick my ring finger in....  I make sure I
drool over them as often as I can as to remember the priority.....  Anodized
CNC hats and bracketry, and big red 4 piston calipers (I'm drooling again)...
 The problem is that I need to address the wheel offset, cuz I need some
serious rotor to wheel face clearance, my bbs's don't have....  There is a
set of this exact setup running on a 5ktq right now, so at least I know it
works, but I would like to have a 16in wheel fit, not a 17 the other guy is
running (see M. Spiers coffee tables)...  Changing hubs means changing wheels
too, so you are adding to the prollum using the porsche stuff.....  As soon
as I get mine on, I will be able to update you on the kit for the
5ktq/200.....   This will not be cheap, even if you swap the porsche red for
the wilwood black....  I saw an ad in TAP that has wilwoods for (staring at)
2400USD, and I'll bet sport wheels isn't that much different.....  Hoping to
beat that price, but it will be close.....   

If you look at the RS stuff in germany, they used struts, bearings, rotors,
driveshafts,wheels etc.etc from the porsche...   A wee bit expensive as an
upgrade for the qfiler......    All kits, even the "bolt ons" require some
serious carrier adapter design, and custom machined hats, so "bolt on" might
be a misnomer....  And that is where the dollars are, the rotors themselves
aren't an arm and a leg.....  And to do it yourself is an engineering bad
dream, BTDT.....   I will certainly keep y'all posted on the project, prolly
by mid/late June.....  Then the rears will need to be put on steroids.....  

HTH

Scott