GTi brakes :)

henry01 · Post by **henry01** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:03 am

hi, does anybody know how easy it is to put the gti brakes on a mk4 6n. my friends got a gti and wants G60 brakes so we were thinking of putting his brakes on mine, just wondering how easy it is and ots needed to do it?

also has anybody tried this

brew1988 · Post by **brew1988** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:12 am

I think the GTi brakes are a larger radius and thickness so you would need to change the calipers to the GTi ones which would mean changing the brake pipes, and bleeding the new calipers and to be honest the GTi brakes arnt exacly amazing, get some green stuff pads and some decent disks and youll be stopping pretty quick

polo boi · Post by **polo boi** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:07 pm

yup just by the green stuff (EBC) pads, u wud have more botha and mess by fittin new pipes and bleedin the fliud through wen the gti brakes arnt spectacluar.

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:49 pm

Do you guys actually have any experience of GTi brakes?

I can tell you that they stopped me pretty quick at 50mph when the car infront had to slam it's brakes on, it was maybe 2 metres infront of me if that.

polo boi · Post by **polo boi** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:51 pm

just because there gti dosnt mean that EBC green stuff pads cant do the same, all im sayin is that its alot of work 2 change it ova for summit that has gti labelled 2 it, it may not work the same as its from the G40

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:54 pm

I wasn't debating that, you guys were just saying that GTi brakes aren't spectacular.

How would you know?

polo boi · Post by **polo boi** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:08 am

i dnt, lol

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 12:45 am

polo gti being best in its class... would be classed as a performance car right? - Meaning more power/torque would need good stoping power.
Meaning if it can stop the gti it would have no problems stoping a 8v polo in no time and deffo an impressive improvement for the 16v.

Can someone actually help answer the guys question instead of making a bunch of useless replies.

spot_on_jon · Post by **spot_on_jon** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:45 am

im quit intersted in this thread to.

ive got a mot cumin up and i know the breaks will defo fail, so do i go for bigger disks and pads as im changing them??

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:40 pm

mysteryboy wrote:polo gti being best in its class... would be classed as a performance car right? - Meaning more power/torque would need good stoping power.
Meaning if it can stop the gti it would have no problems stoping a 8v polo in no time and deffo an impressive improvement for the 16v.

Can someone actually help answer the guys question instead of making a bunch of useless replies.

I'm sure it has been asked and answered before somewhere on here, that may have been for the MK5 though

??

Giorgio · Post by **Giorgio** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 4:53 pm

Is there much point. The car comes with brakes that are good enough to stop it.

Unless your car is like super quick I wouldnt bother. But if they are free then why not.

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 5:53 pm

ModifiedMadness wrote:
mysteryboy wrote:polo gti being best in its class... would be classed as a performance car right? - Meaning more power/torque would need good stoping power.
Meaning if it can stop the gti it would have no problems stoping a 8v polo in no time and deffo an impressive improvement for the 16v.

Can someone actually help answer the guys question instead of making a bunch of useless replies.
I'm sure it has been asked and answered before somewhere on here, that may have been for the MK5 though ??

Hah Ya I was in a grumpy mood when posting

A little step in the right direction:

http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... gti+brakes

ModifiedMadness · Post by **ModifiedMadness** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 6:29 pm

mysteryboy wrote:Hah Ya I was in a grumpy mood when posting

That's ok mate, I take most things with a pinch of salt

henry01 · Post by **henry01** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 10:57 pm

this ones got you guys going hasn't it.

cheers for all the replys, i was only looking to change them because my best friends going to have a spare set going and i thought it might be quite a nice mod to have.