gchu

I recently upgarded my Porsche Carrera's brake and endup with 4 excellent condition calipers plus roters & pads. Can these brake componets be used in my 94 FD? If not, I have no use and plan to sell it. BTW, the Porsche it was removed from is a 2002 Carrera 4 Cab narrow body.

GoodfellaFD3S

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The Porsche Big Red Calipers from the 1995-98 993 Turbo fit, there are a few FDs around that have them installed (Fritz flynn, jay nyc to name a few).

impactwrench

FD brakes kick butt the way they are. Unless you are a full time tracker, there is no need for an upgrade, if that's what Porsche brakes would be.

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damn gchu, nice car collection....and a fd with 5k on it...damn

silverTRD

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ive read that the porsche brakes are really heavy...not sure though

__dave__

fit--as in they bolt on,
or fit--as in there's a kit somewhere to make them fit?

GoodfellaFD3S

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I believe you need custom brackets for the calipers.

PM fritz flynn, he has a set for sale that will come off of an FD so they will be a bolt-on application.

alexdimen

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trying to save a few dimes with a garage like that? i don't get it... sounds like you're in the market for one of the big name kits if you're serious about it.

7-sins

What about the carbon ceramic brakes? This is on a MkIV VW GTI, should fit out cars with the proper bracket and loads of money right?

GoodfellaFD3S

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Why install amazing expensive brakes like that on a piece of fwd junk like a gti? I'll never understand some people......

RE Suzuki

it's his money, it's his car. everyone is different? I'm sure there are planty of people who says, "why spend load of money onto that old unreliable piece of mazda."

7-sins

Eh it was a companys' show car... but they did have a 805hp 996TT next to it

GoodfellaFD3S

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There, much better

ptrhahn

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The carbon/ceramics are a 6k option when you buy a porsche, so I can't imagine how much more the parts are if you just buy them.

It's certainly doable, but you'd need custom rotor hats (which may or may not require special engineering for the unique properties of carbon ceramic rotors), a set of those new Porsche calipers (whuch look remarkably like the StopTech 6-pistons), with custom brackets to mount them, and then the special pads that work with those rotors.

No idea what you'd need to do to match them at the rear, but i suspect neither the FD rear brakes or the '99 upgrades (or the master cylinder for that matter) would work.

chingon

It can be done, i've seen it in 240sx, 3000gt's, etc.. You'd definitely need a bracket, and possibly custom rotors. You could use rotors from other cars (i'll be trying mustang cobra rotors w/my cadillac calipers), but you have to take into consideration the brake bias, as well as the contact pad area, which may bite unevenly at the corners of the rotor.

The set I have came from a cadillac cts-v, and the fronts are supposed to be the same hardware as ferrari f50, but they are heavy, and call for a 14" rotor. The rear are slightly smaller, weight as much as the fc calipers, and is what i'll probably end up using in the front w/the cobra rotors. I did the brake bias calcs. w/the cadillac hardware, and came out to w/in 1% of the oem hardware. I have yet to do cadillac rear up front w/fc fronts on the rear, but I'm hoping I can get a similar brake bias.

Another thing to consider is your brake master. I'll probably end up using 300zx 17/16" brake master, which is al. (unlike the iron fc one), and has a proportioning valve built in it, and it's a direct fit onto the booster position.