The rear is pretty straight foward, the front is not and it would probably be cheaper to buy a kit as you know everything will work together and you can also get on the road faster. The price may seem pretty high, but you probably can't build it as cheap unless you have a pretty good machine shop. The early parts are big and heavy although they are quite a bit lighter than the later parts. The eary parts are also cheaper than the later parts. One new rotor for an early car is $50 for a later or turbo $200 to $250. To prevent problems with brake bias stay with the front and rear system from the same car. You could end up with a car with some really evil braking.
If you stay with the single pots go with the MC from the 944 as you will need more fluid to energize the pads.
On a different side, the brakes on a 70's McLaren CanAm car had 11.5 inch rotors with 4 pot calipers. With a 427 inch aluminum block engine running 600HP it would do 200 MPH. Automotive design has changed alot, but I think these brakes should be enough for underpowered 200 HP VW. Wink Wink
Hope some of this helps.
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June 7th 2003, 22:51
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