If you want "real" braking power, I can special order the Porsche Boxster
setup that fits on the front of the Vanagon.  Even comes with German TUV
approval.  Cool stuff.... only $2,000 & up.

Cheers,

Jeff
www.vanagonparts.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of P. Stanhope
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:00 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Big Brake + Steel Wheel ?

Ya, i know ANOTHER guy that has the same problem, and
now he cant upgrade. I think the problem is
exclusively with the Gowesty 15" steel wheels.
Tiico.com has some SA made ones that might work.
As far as stopping power, i 'think' the stock vanagon
disc brakes are about as good as the bigger brake
kit....as for brake fade, well the vented rotors will
stay cooler for obvious reasons, good for the
mountains i guess

As you can tell, Im prolly just trying to talk myself
out of spending the big bucks on the big brake kit and
15" rims. boy if i could just win lotto

Phil

--- "Denis-F. Bastien" <botalys@VIDEOTRON.CA> wrote:
> Hi, I saw at Gowesty web site that the SA Big brake
> kit do not fit with the 15 inches steel wheel !
>
> Any suggestion for improving the braking capacity of
> the Vanagon using the Steel wheels.
>
> Thanks
>
> Denis

=====
Phil
84' Westy...Tiico'ed
00' Cannondale MTB
95' S9 Skateboard
04' New Balance 705 All Terrain's

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