I had a friend with those 11” rears on his mk3. Nice upgrade when paired with his 312 Brembo boxsters.
Pros: Nice upgrade
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
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Must do, the WJ knuckle swap with Akebono calipers. Teves calipers are junk, and the factory XJ calipers are freakin worse!
Pros: must do, superior to others
Vehicle:
Jeep Cherokee
I've been running the brembos with ss lines, wildwood MC, stoptech rotors, hawk pads and dot 4 for years. And I run hard. 0 issues.
Pros: zero issues, reliable performance
Vehicle:
Nissan
I have installed those and drove them super hard at the track and they did great.
Pros: great performance, easy to install
Vehicle:
Nissan
I rebuilt a caliper for $13 and it went well, but I was able to get all the parts.
Pros: inexpensive repair, successful rebuild
I’ve rebuilt the front calipers, upgraded the rears to MK4 callipers, new pads and rotors, new proportioning valve, TT stainless brake lines.
Pros: new pads and rotors
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Corrado
AG pads so I assumed AG calipers. Told to order Girling.
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Jetta
It takes a larger master cylinder to push more fluid to four pistons. The surface area of all 4 pistons pushing on the disc is slightly larger than OE. A larger (thicker) rotor is being used and I'm not sure how to calculate that into the equation or if that's even important. Regardless if you have the oe mater cylinder using Porsche 4 pot calipers you will have to get a larger master cylinder.
Pros: larger surface area
Cons: larger master cylinder needed
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Passat B3
Raybestos calipers. Actual garbage in a box. Blown out seals stripped out banjo bolts. Even a cracked caliper.
Cons: actual garbage
Two calipers failed in the first year. I tried to repair it when I finally took apart the seals were junk and they had never been put in properly at manufacturer. The pistons had rust on them! Understanding manufacturing can go bad. Now today I heard a grinding and pulled my wheels off my Jeep only to find a third caliper had frozen and completely ripped through the brake pad and damaged the rotor. Not to mention all the paint that was so pretty on these things has peeled off.
Cons: caliper failure, rust, paint peeled
Mileage: 5000 km
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