Raimund, Chris and the Vanagon mailing list...

Please see http://www.syncro.ca/tech/brakes/AudiBrakes.jpg for a few snap
shots of my friend's Audi 100 > Syncro brake design.

He has been running them for well over a year in his Syncro and has reported
no problems with them.

Now I am hearing that one should not touch the holes in the calliper, well,
the calliper is unchanged with this design, only the carrier.  The M12 hole
is made into an M14 and the center of the hold is slightly shifted - still
round, not oblong.  With the work done, the side wall of the original M12
hole is 'just' still present on the new M14 hole.  The only additional
working to the calliper is the recess for the Allen style fastener so there
would be enough clearance for the disc.

Supposedly the shop that did the work for this fellow does a lot of race
vehicles and they feel that there is more than enough meat there.  If you
look at RPI Equipped and other places with their Wilwood braking system they
are using tiny T6 aluminium spacers for their setups.  If the same material
used for beer cans will stop a vehicle then the amount of cast iron here
(which is more than the amount of aluminium in the Wilwood setup) should
work just fine - right!?

So, at this point I have yet to do anything with my brake setup.  Of course,
I want to be safe about everything.  What do you think of the design?  How
would you build an adapter seeing how the two studs are basically on top of
each other?

Thanks!

David Marshall

Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel-Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3

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