S3 front caliper to the rear?

[Ironborn]

I think I read some,vagoc I think.... that you can fit S3 front calipers to the rear with light modification? Is this true? I think it would look sick.

 

[sabers]

is this a joke ?

 

[Ironborn]

No......

 

[Jonse]

i think he means to the rear of the front wheel rather then to the rear wheels?

 

[sabers]

I hope so haha

 

[s3_sid]

could do with come clarification do you mean run front calipers on the back and then run a hand brake caliper like an r8 ? or just switch the calipers location on the front ?

 

[Ironborn]

could do with come clarification do you mean run front calipers on the back and then run a hand brake caliper like an r8 ? or just switch the calipers location on the front ?

The first one, I have no idea how brakes work, didn't think about the handbrake. Can't the front caliper work as handbrake as well. I mean it's just a piston moving up and down no? I know I read it somewhere.

 

[s3_sid]

well just to make it simple no front calipers wont traditionally work on the back as they have a arm on them to mechanically lock the piston in place sort of as a fail safe measure ! you can run a caliper without this system if you run a secondary caliper like the r8 and would look something like this http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSRCazkwpJ5KXVGVNbkYCW0sXYIfQxeWKHEqyCqX2DzT3o75O_r

the smaller caliper is just for the hand break

 

[c_w]

i think he means to the rear of the front wheel rather then to the rear wheels?

I hope so haha

Surely that would be even more bizarre - especially as the tie rods are there!