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Brake upgrade?
« on: July 23, 2016, 07:32:53 pm »
Can you upgrade just the front brakes or would it upset the balance? I was thinking of fitting r32 or possibly mk7 Performance Pack front brakes to my mk5.

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2016, 09:07:52 pm »
as long as the front brakes are bigger than the rears you'll get the brake bias in good favour

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2016, 09:35:03 pm »
In an ideal world you'd fit 310mm R32/S3 rears as well - some people report the back end feeling a bit light under heavy braking with upgraded fronts and standard rears. Although they're apparently quite hard to get hold of.

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2016, 09:45:01 pm »
Before I fitted bigger brakes to the rear (S3 calipers and discs) on my Stage 2+ Eddy a few times while under VERY heavy breaking the car definelty felt unbalanced. Once fitted the car felt slightly more planted. 90% of the time I could tell no difference.

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2016, 09:50:04 pm »
Now there's a honest answer cause most people wouldn't apprise an item they've paid good money for other the typical quote "yer there the dogs bollicks".

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2016, 07:46:47 am »
I'm no expert.

Have a look at these tech paper from Stoptech US.
http://www.stoptech.com/technical-support/technical-white-papers/white-paper---brake-bias-and-performance-why-brake-balance-matters
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http://www.stoptech.com/technical-support/technical-white-papers/rear-brake-upgrades

Declaration of interest - I have Stoptech ST41 Front BBK only on my Stg 2 Eddy; works well for me, but I don't track.

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2016, 08:33:37 am »
There's "some" nonsense in that last stop tech link and lots of marketing and sales "guff"

I've got 362mm front brakes and 282mm rears. Never had an issue with brake bias.

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Re: Brake upgrade?
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2016, 02:22:18 pm »
Can anyone tell me if the front calipers from Mk7 Golf R & the 340mm disks are a direct swap without brackets or spacers to the Mk5 (with Monza 2s) as an alternative to the R32/S3 upgrade?

Thanks in advance  :smiley: