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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 03:42 PM
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FC Rear Caliper Differences

Hey guys. I'm swapping to Turbo brakes on my SE and following Aaroncake's install on his website. I got a killer deal on a set of 4 Turbo rotors so I'm wondering if they will work in place of my non vented rears and if there is difference in calipers. I just replaced my rear calipers like 3,000 miles ago so don't want to have to again but would love these rotors since they are slotted ( and dare I say....drilled.....). Tried doing a little searching but couldn't really find my answer and can't try it out until like next weekend so I'm trying to get it figured out before i dive in since it is my daily. Thanks!!
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 04:28 PM
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Calipers are different for vented to non-vented rotors.
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 05:20 PM
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If you have 4 lug fronts and rears the T2 rotors will not fit. If you have 5 lug then the rotors will fit but you should have changed out calipers at that time for both the front and rear if you had 4 lug to start with.
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Old Oct 4, 2012 | 07:39 PM
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I have 4 lug hubs. I re drilled the rotors using one of the milling machines I have access to here at school and also am in the process of machining the spacers to space out the front rotors and bought 4 piston, Turbo II front calipers. So I am converting EVERYTHING to the bigger Turbo II brakes and they will fit. I was just wondering about the rear calipers because no matter where I look, they just say " Rear calipers" but nothing about for vented on non vented rotors. That's why I wasn't sure. What exact models had the vented rear rotors?
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Old Oct 5, 2012 | 10:17 AM
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The rear calipers are different between the 4 lug design and 5 lug design. You most likely will need to modify the caliper mounts to use the 4 lug caliper with a 5 lug rotr.
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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 07:06 PM
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s4: convertible and TII
s5: convertible, TII, GTUS

There may be a few other models, that's the ones I definitely know.
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Old Oct 11, 2012 | 08:21 PM
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This is what I'm looking for. Thank you!!!!
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