Rear Calipers - What to do?

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

Brian,
I have had a set of the ECS tuning rear brake conversion calipers for a bout
a year that i haven't had a chance to install.  Does the calipers use the
carriers that are already on my 1986 16V Scirocco?  ECS is not very helpful
in a tech sense, in fact they don't have instructions on these or how to
install them except to say just like the OEM ones.  Ha these are not OEM on
our cars.  Anyways do their calipers work with our carriers?  I hope so.
They only accidently sent me one carrier and I don't know if the bolt
pattern lines up anyways.


On 8/15/06, Kevin Brosha <kjbrosha@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/14/06, Brian Haygood <haygood@myway.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > As the others have said, you can shop around at a Friendly Local Auto
> > Parts Store (FLAPS) and get some with a warranty.  Swapping calipers is
> not
> > a particularly hard job, so doing them yourself will certainly help the
> > budget.  If you put the same type of calipers back on, you will be
> replacing
> > them soon thereafter.
> >
> >
> >
> > The other basic options are to use better calipers.  Virtually any VW
> rear
> > caliper will fit.  A1 chassis calipers (like ours) fail quickly.  A2 and
> A3
> > calipers bolt right up on the oppositte side.  The bleeders face down,
> which
> > is not a problem at all.  A4 calipers are supposed to be even better
> after
> > about '99 - the earliest ones had trouble according to one person I
> heard
> > from.  I used A4 calipers on mine.  They are aluminum and work very
> well.
> >
> >
> >
> > I used brake adaptor hoses from ECS Tuning.  These are great and cost
> $45
> > for the pair.  Now someone has found that the short flexible lines from
> a B5
> > Passat (i.e. 98 to '95) work, too.  Those are $66 for a pair of new
> > ones.  You can probably find junkyard examples for a few bucks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Try VW vortex for people parting out the cars you want stuff from.
> >
> >
> >
> > Brian
>
>
> Thanks for the advice Brian.  I looked on the ecstuning site to see what
> the
> brake adapter hose would cost- they have a conversion kit on sale right
> now
> with free shipping for $199, including (taken from the site)
>
> -Brand new MK4 aluminum calipers (Left & Right)
> -ECS Stainless Steel DOT approved custom built brake lines
> -ECS banjo bolts with copper sealing washers
>
> If people on the list think this is a good option, I may just go with
> this.
> The price is good for two calipers, and it comes with the needed brake
> lines
> - rather than an adapter hose  - sounds good.
>
> I'm going to get new batttery and ground cables, cheap enough and isn't
> going to hurt - a good recommendation, thanks.
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Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)