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mike100 · 08-18-2014

When I bought my car, it had a whole box of uninstalled C5 brake parts front and rear. The previous owner was going to forego having an e-brake and do C5 calipers on the rear too, but all you get was a little thicker rotor mass and maybe .25" larger diameter in the back.

My feeling was that-
1) the C5 rear brake pad was the same size
2) The C4 has a more forward weight bias than the newer generations with the rear transaxle.

There didn't seem to be any gain to convert the rear brakes to something with the same size brake pad to me. That leaves the more exotic hub mods for the really trick brakes. Who knows how much the master cylinder can support, but C5 fronts still lock up on mine.

08-18-2014	#2
mike100 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: San Marcos CA Posts: 1,786	Re: Guys with Killer Brakes, what about Rears & Bias???? When I bought my car, it had a whole box of uninstalled C5 brake parts front and rear. The previous owner was going to forego having an e-brake and do C5 calipers on the rear too, but all you get was a little thicker rotor mass and maybe .25" larger diameter in the back. My feeling was that- 1) the C5 rear brake pad was the same size 2) The C4 has a more forward weight bias than the newer generations with the rear transaxle. There didn't seem to be any gain to convert the rear brakes to something with the same size brake pad to me. That leaves the more exotic hub mods for the really trick brakes. Who knows how much the master cylinder can support, but C5 fronts still lock up on mine.