early 944 brakes, stock MC....dosent feel right

[mabbo]

bug@5speed:
did you ever get the 4 piston 944 turbo calipers fitted to the front along with the 944 single slider rears? this is one of the options i have been considering..
mabbo

[Wally]

I have had the 23/19 944 MC on the car for a year or two now and have just changed it out to an original bug 19/19mm MC.
Will let you all know how it works out

[Simon]

Originally Posted by mabbo

bug@5speed:
did you ever get the 4 piston 944 turbo calipers fitted to the front along with the 944 single slider rears? this is one of the options i have been considering..
mabbo

I'd get something bigger for the rears (or something smaller for the front), because the rears can handle more braking than you'd expect (Weight distribution stationary is about 40:60 front:rear, and it doesn't change as much when braking since we have a rear-engined car )

[jmd]

wally,
Why if its running, make the change to the other MC?

I am setting up a 4pot porsche caliper (944T) front/rear (bigger front pistons) and have the 944T MC but not installed (its a bare pan at the moment). I have followed all these posts and their multi-directional advice and am still a smidge confused.

Is there anyone running a finished car that uses 69' -ish IRS chassis with a full front/rear 944T brake conversion that is up and running smoothly for a little while that can comment on how it works??

If so, did you replace all the hard brake lines?
Also, did you use the original VW hard lines or did you convert the hard lines from the MC to the Calipers to use 944 stuff?

Is there anyone actually running an MC that is setup with a balance bar / proportioning valve? If so what parts and are there images of this configuration.


As useful as our forum is there is data allllll over the damn place... and all of it is in total bits and pieces with loads of speculation and opinion instead of historic and documented fact... is there one single post for a few things such as "944 Brake Conversions - all you need to know from calipers to MC's" or "944 Suspension conversions - all you need to know from alu arms to steelies to skinny or fat stances (not so important as the brakes)"... this type of 'organized' information would be awesome to reference...

and as much as asking a question around here gets the standard response "Its in the forum look it up"... well, thats all well and good but the community is to support its fellows by organizing and quantifying that data into useful and organized chunks, hopefully validated with user experience and images to support the learning curve...

Is there anything I can personally do to support this effort?

[Wally]

Originally Posted by jmd

wally,
Why if its running, make the change to the other MC?

I still had too much front bias, Weird, but true for me.
The 944 23/19 MC gave a VERY high and super hard pedal, but too little braking force imo.
The 19/19 stock MC gave a little less pedal effort and a normal high and hard pedal. Not the dramatic change I'd hoped for, but its a bit better now.

Sorry that this is probably again confusing wrt others experience
Maybe you can conclude s/th from that (seriously though)