Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:43:45 +0000
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the coming rear disc brakes from GW?
In-Reply-To: <56B0CFD9.2050709@v6bus.de>
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Paul of Valley WagonWerks, San Rafael, Ca and Marco of the Bus Lab, Berkeley, Ca did my rear disk brakes, from Audi 5000 turbo I believe. Not kit, from scratch
The parking brake works great.
On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 7:49 AM, Raimund Feussner <ray@V6BUS.DE> wrote:
Because of overbraking I recommend to NOT install rear discs without a
matching front setup.
I tried offering my 4-disc setup via the list once or twice, but being
non-commercial, the costs were killing me, especially shipping costs
from Germany.
Also, there is no disc conversion known yet to fit under the 14" Vanagon
rims. I mean, 256mm original setup on the front is really close to the
rim, so what would you expect on the rear?!
2002 I started with 288mm on the front (vented) and 245mm solid in the
rear. Took this from a C4 Audi 100/A6.
Then went to 312mm in the front (2006 or so?) and will start the new
season with 345mm Audi S4 in the front.
312mm front survives several hard brake tests from 115mph to full stop
quite well on the Vanagon (mine is at almost 2tons).
All setups kept the 245mm in the rear. I could go larger, but it´s no use.
Going larger in the front is no use either, but it looks nicer behind
big wheels with few spokes :-)
The usual bragging:
http://www.v6bus.de/WP_000892.jpg
http://www.v6bus.de/WP_000893.jpg
BTW: I would say OK to the biggest rear setup, if the US Vanagons had
ABS. But that´s a Euro feature only, so better not overbrake the rear!!!
Regards
Raimund
Am 02.02.2016 um 15:24 schrieb T3 Technique:
> Burley's kit is a copy of the SC kit and they both use the same parts. Many
> of my customers have had just as much trouble getting the parking brake to
> work well on both kits.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Ed McLean
> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 6:05 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Thoughts on the coming rear disc brakes from GW?
>
> So, other than the bracket that attaches the carrier to the hub, how are the
> Burley Motorsports rear disc brakes different than the SmallCar or the
> GoWesty kits? Are the pads different composition with different cold FMSI
> friction codes? The calipers look the same in the available pictures but
> are they different? Are there other factors that would impact parking brake
> efficiency?
>
> Do the Burley parking brakes really work better?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 17:51:27 -0800, Alistair Bel <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>> But.... Reading about the various rear brake set ups, from various
> vendors, one annoying thing seems to crop up and that is poor parking brake
> performance. The burley Motorsport kit it be the exception to this.
>> Alistair
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