MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Modifications & Technical Area => Performance Modifications => Topic started by: JimmyC92 on December 02, 2014, 05:25:21 pm

Title: GT to GTI Brake swap - worth doing?
Post by: JimmyC92 on December 02, 2014, 05:25:21 pm

Hi guys,

Im slowly but surely getting worse with my modding bug! I've seen a few standard GTI calipers for sale around, does anyone have any idea if it would be worth it, or how much work is involved in swapping them over? Im assuming the disk size is bigger as well?

Thanks!

Title: Re: GT to GTI Brake swap - worth doing?
Post by: skard on December 02, 2014, 05:37:31 pm

What GT do you have? The diesel 170 already has the same setup.

It is just a case of swapping the carriers and discs to go from 288 to 312as the pad and liper is the same anyway. I did it on two previous cars and it seemed ok.

Title: Re: GT to GTI Brake swap - worth doing?
Post by: JimmyC92 on December 04, 2014, 11:23:39 pm

Quote from: skard on December 02, 2014, 05:37:31 pm

What GT do you have? The diesel 170 already has the same setup.

It is just a case of swapping the carriers and discs to go from 288 to 312as the pad and liper is the same anyway. I did it on two previous cars and it seemed ok.

Hi mate its the petrol 170bhp

Title: Re: GT to GTI Brake swap - worth doing?
Post by: skard on December 05, 2014, 12:04:06 am

Does it not already have 312 & 286mm brakes?

Title: Re: GT to GTI Brake swap - worth doing?
Post by: marko on December 05, 2014, 08:50:31 am

Id say it already does!!!
It's the r32/s3 setup that you should look at