Fitted the kit today, pretty easy about 45 mins a side once you have figured out what to do, first side took me about 2 hours!
First grind back the caliper posts as per DaveB's earlier instructions, initially I fitted the calipers without and all I achieved was the new disk was locked solid.
The disk retaining bolt was siezed and the head stripped so i had to drill out both sides, no real problem, don't need the retaining bolt as the pads hold the dsik in place until you can bolt the wheel on.
First step, once you have removed the old caliper and disk (my old caliper hanging to one side) is to bolt in the adaptors as can be seen:
then bolt caliper on, you can see the two vertical bolts on the left side of the caliper:
then fit pads and on the passenger side I spliced the porsche pad wear sesnor into the VW pad wear sesnor plug so i still have pad wear sensing. Then I fitted new hose:
the Y piece in this pic is the cable to the pad wear sesnor and also the ESP sensor. The clearance when you put the wheels on is very tight about 1 - 2 mm max:
Curbing coutesy of my wife
Finished job looks good (haven't cleaned the wheels yet) the pedal feel is sooooooo much beter and even though I haven't bedded the brakes in It feels so much stronger at stopping, can't wait until they are fully bedded in!
Wife in aberdeen with the ed30 at the moment this is my std (well 275HP, 315lbft) GTI with 17" Monza 2's, will try the pescara's when she gets back sometime next week and see if they fit, they are std 18"'s
Total cost:
Ebay calipers, calipers and seals all very good £235
Fitting kit - many thanks DaveB £200
New disks, pads and porsche wear sesnors £110
Brake fuild ~ £10
Paint I did it myself with a brush, had a part used tim of very high temperature engine enamal (came up well!)
Brembo caliper tansfers i high temp PVC (high quality) ebay £6
Total about £560
Very happy
many thanks to daveB
