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 Post subject: what brakes do you run
PostPosted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:55 pm 
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what brand brakes and disk or drum also what size

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Vw calipers,you can buy the whole kit for about $160


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I got disc all around.. Karman ghia rotors with corolla calipers up front and 280z rotors with corolla calipers outback. Valves to make 4 wheel disc on stock bug pedal or seperate the front to pull handle. :wink:

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Nissan sentra calipers with vw rotors,varga calipers kept breaking and causing a rollover dont recommend using those offroad!


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Disk in the rear only, never have run front brakes in a rail. There have been times that they would have been helpful backing off some of these hills.

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Thing drums and pads on rear


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Wilwood rears, no fronts.


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Old Buggy has Porche rear disks with cutters and front has Stock wide 5 drums on seperate hand operated master cylinder. New Buggy runs Jamar wide 5 rotors and hubs with Wildwood calipers on all 4 with cutters on rear and porportinal valves on front and rear off single master cylinder.

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stock vw drum brakes are all u need for front unless u put them on a seperate hand acuated circut then what ever disc in rear maybee willwood dyna lite 4 piston jobs :D


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Wilwoods up front and rear but, seperate systems.

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Cheapo disk in the rear. Nothing in the front.


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Kendal, One thing i can say about running drum brakes in the front is that the shoes ware out pretty quick. I found my self adjusting them before every ride. The shoes only lasted me about 5 weekends of riding

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I need brakes on the front


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Wilwood 4 piston knock offs rear and Strange Eng. single pistons in front on a seperate handle.

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Neal disk brakes in the back. I'm going to buy a handbrake to run my stock front vw drum brakes.

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[quote='dunebuggy79']Nissan sentra calipers with vw rotors,varga calipers kept breaking and causing a rollover dont recommend using those offroad![/quote]

Yes, exactly.
The VW calipers do not have a slide mechanism and if slid sideways hard, the caliper cannot move and it will break the caliper and/or rotor. There is a BIG difference in break pads. The ceramics work the best, imo.
I have seen a lof of people use rear calipers from a car which look good, but most of them have a


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I`m not sure of the piston size but they work great just a little pressure on the pedal or turning brake and that wheel stops got them off ebay for $30 bucks and any autoparts store sells parts and complete calipers just in case something happens been 3 years and no problems brake pads still look like new.Mine are off the front your right the backs are smaller because most of the braking is done in front so those are the ones to get.There was a guy that told me he used 80`s camaro fronts that worked pretty good.

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