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 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2015 11:18 pm Post subject: Self-Made Big Brakes? |
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Does anyone know the part numbers for the Audi-based Big Brake Set?
Being over here in Germany, I am up to my eyeballs in parts, and can get almost anything.
Yes, I would love to just buy GoWesty's setup, but shipping costs and duty taxes are prohibitively expensive.
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AWESOME!
Now to find a German machine shop that will help, and not think I am MAD!
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bluefirefly
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:25 am Post subject: Re: Self-Made Big Brakes? |
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Being over here in Germany, I am up to my eyeballs in parts, and can get almost anything.
Yes, I would love to just buy GoWesty's setup, but shipping costs and duty taxes are prohibitively expensive. |
I am sure you already checked, but I am surprised you cannot find a full kit in Europe already made.
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insyncro
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:51 am Post subject: Re: Self-Made Big Brakes? |
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Being over here in Germany, I am up to my eyeballs in parts, and can get almost anything.
Yes, I would love to just buy GoWesty's setup, but shipping costs and duty taxes are prohibitively expensive. |
I am sure you already checked, but I am surprised you cannot find a full kit in Europe already made. |
There are numerous available. |
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Why pay 1000 Euro for a kit I can scrape up at the schrottplatz for 100, have a few pieces machined for half that, and have the same set-up?
I'm sure there are other options than the ONE I found, but I'm a do-it-yourselfer. Why pay someone else when this is within my scope of abilities?
Yeah, it's nice to open a box and see shiney parts you know will work, but where is the challenge of making it work?
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| why pay anything to add brake torque, unless that is really the problem?? |
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I had a BBK on Domo, and I really liked it. Doing 200KPH, and being able to slow down a Westy, and stop quickly if I needed to was a great feeling. I want that feeling again in the next Wohnwagen I build.
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bluefirefly
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| Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2015 4:04 pm Post subject: Re: Self-Made Big Brakes? |
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| Yes, I would love to just buy GoWesty's setup.... |
| Team WorldTour wrote: |
Now to find a German machine shop that will help, and not think I am MAD! |
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Why pay 1000 Euro for a kit I can scrape up at the schrottplatz for 100, have a few pieces machined for half that, and have the same set-up?
I'm sure there are other options than the ONE I found, but I'm a do-it-yourselfer. Why pay someone else when this is within my scope of abilities?
Yeah, it's nice to open a box and see shiney parts you know will work, but where is the challenge of making it work?
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Seriously!!!!
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akyrie
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I don't know if the information in those links is elsewhere, but wow, nice work. Doable project, and hopefully a great outcome. next needed are the gonads and a pick N pull yard of fun!
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| I don't know if the information in those links is elsewhere, but wow, nice work. Doable project, and hopefully a great outcome. next needed are the gonads and a pick N pull yard of fun! |
There is another version of the rear adapter plate. I started with the dimensions of that one but changed it to my liking. As far as I know I was the first Sharan-disc-in-the-front converter but I know a few that have gone the same route after me with the instruction on the blog.
It's just a matter if fitting things together. How hard can it be? 
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