Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:50:39 -0700
Reply-To: dylan friedman <insyncro@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: dylan friedman <insyncro@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: [Syncro] Larger 303mm Syncro brakes
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Ben,
Check the Samba forums.
There is a guy over there that uses MB brakes front and rear on a Vanagon.
Can't remember the specifics at the moment.
I do remember a HUGE adapter laser cut from a chunk of steel.
He may help with MB models and part numbers.
Hope this helps.
dylan
----- Original Message ----
From: David Marshall <mailinglist@fastforward.ca>
To: BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Cc: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com; Syncro@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 10:43:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Syncro] Larger 303mm Syncro brakes
Hi Ben,
To see the Audi 5000S / 100 / 200 stuff on my TriStar see: http://syncro. ca/tech/audibrak es.htm
Pretty straight forward install - basic machine shop skills
needed.
I know somewhere online there must be a brake catalog
that shows the offsets of various disc brakes. All I know is they
are car brakes, which MB makes a lot of cars so...
David
Marshall
http://www.hasenwer k.ca
Box 4153, Quesnel BC,
Canada V2J 3J2
Engine Conversion FAQ -
http://www.hasenwer k.ca/faq
On Wed, June 4, 2008 18:54, BenT
Syncro wrote:
> On 6/4/08, David Marshall
<mailinglist@ fastforward. ca> wrote:
>>
>>
Well, I have the 276mm dual pot Audi brakes on my TriStar - cross
>> drilled
>> and slotted and the stopping power is
pretty good but there is always
>> room
>> for
improvement.
>>
>> I have seen somewhere in Germany
people using
>> the same Audi 5000S / 100 / 200 brake carrier
and caliper with a 303mm
>> Mercedes disc that didn't require
the use of an 8mm spacer and the pads
>> don't go off the top
of the disc like they do on my TriStar (just... but
>> the do).
Does anyone know what model of MB has 303mm 5x112 discs
>>
that have 8mm more offset than the Audi 5000S / 100 / 200 disc - time
to
>> upgrade the brakes on my Syncro Westie as I had *smoke*
coming off of
>> the
>> going in to Pemberton over
the weekend... not a nice feeling when you
>> have
>> no brakes - especially with a trailer and four 44" tall
tires in the
>> trailer pushing you along.
>>
>> David Marshall
>
> I've been trying to get
Rennie Wibble to try to find one out of the VAG
> parts bins. He
redrilled my
> Audi dual-piston calipers but installation on my
Syncro 16 requires a
> larger
> 300mm disc.
>
Sounds like 303 would be almost perfect. I was thinking initially to
> turndown the 312mm.
> Then I thought perhaps there is are
VW or Audi discs which might fit. I am
> not adverse to
>
using MB parts if you figure out which is which.
>
> I'm
wondering how you propose to install the Audi calipers with the Syncro
> (14") suspension
> upright.
>
> BenT
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