cookstar

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Am looking at my options re sorting the brakes on my Bug WRX, and was wondering, if i bought say some six pots for the fron, can you adapt the origional front brakes and have them on the rear wheels.

I know this may sound like a stupid idea, but im sure i have heard it done on other brands of car i.e VW's


Cheers



Cookie

RB5_245

Trouble is the handbrake operates on drums on the inside of the rear disks, you could probably get them on with out too much hassle and fit a hydraulic handbrake but it's an MOT failure.

Dave

babber

It might look nice, but can't see you'd gain any benefit from doing it. The rear brakes are great already, so making them better would surely upset the balance of the car under braking. I bet you'd then find, you'd be locking up the rear brakes all the time.

Cheers Phill

babber

Why's a hydraulic handbrake an MOT failure? Surely a handbrake is a handbrake?

Phill

RB5_245

Well yes, but you need a secondary form of breaking. Not sure if you may be allowed a whole seperate hydraulic system with it's own caliper or if it has to be entirely mechanical.

Either way you're not allowed to break into the normal braking system without a backup.

babber

Oh right, I see what you mean.

That could be true about having secondary system. I know for a fact that on some super cars they got rear calipers for braking and rear calipers for handbrake. Two I've been in had this arrangement

Phill

chris_c201

Shame it wouldn't work... it was a good "out of the box" idea anyway!!

p1mark

I looked at this, in such a depth as to draw it up, using a set of front discs and attaching them to o.e rears that had the disc portion machined off (i.e leaving the handbrake drum).

its a lot of work TBH, requiring bespoke carriers for the discs and obviously brackets for the calipers. If you have a mate with a CNC machining centre it may be a cost effective option, if you dont-forget it.

I was going to do it - but then sold the front brakes