Received a note from aircooled.net that their disc brake kit is back in stock. John assured me that it's the good stuff.
As soon as the budget allows this is where I'm going for the brakes. Nick On Monday, September 9, 2013 6:33:52 PM UTC-4, Nick Stokes wrote: > > I'm getting ready to finally get my '70 Bug back on the road with a > replacement pan (rusted frame head) and want to upgrade the front brakes to > disc while I have it in pieces. > > I did this a number of years ago with my daughter's '74 and was very > pleased with the improvement in braking. I bought a new beam with the > spindles to mount the calipers and wish to buy a kit with stock hight > spindles. If memory serves me right this kit came from Aircooled.net but > I see that currently their kit is on long-term backorder. > > After some searches I find the kits but am VERY leery of the quality after > looking at a video of what looks like the locator pins flexing under > pressure and the author commenting on the poor quality of the EMPI-branded > kit. > > Looking at the CB Performance kits - anyone have experience with them or > any other kits? Cost is NOT a major factor - safety and longevity is. > > Thanks > > Nick Stokes > vwradios.com > > > > > -- Visit the VintagVW archives at http://mail-archive.com/[email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VintagVW - Air Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintagvw. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
