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 gazzac
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| posted on February 6th, 2011 at 08:19 PM |
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4 stud disc brakes to fit wide 5 wheels
Hello all, I have got a 1967 beetle with wide five wheels. I have just got hold of a disc brake front end with 2 inch drop spindles and still want to
run my wide 5 mags. Can you buy adapters to do this? is there any issues with safety by useing them? how much am I looking at for 2 for the front
only? Does anyone have some second hand forsale in Adelaide? Thanks Gary
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| posted on February 6th, 2011 at 09:41 PM |
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adaptors arent road legal. the only wide five discs i know about are the vintage kits
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gazzac
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| posted on February 6th, 2011 at 09:50 PM |
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So can I replace to rotors with a wide five set? will they fit without changing anything else? Cheers Gary
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| posted on February 11th, 2011 at 09:51 AM |
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You can get wide-5 rotors, but the advice I got was that they won't fit with dropped spindles. Also, your calipers might not fit different
rotors.
Your best bet is to do what I did: buy a full wide-5 disk kit (rotors, calipers, everything) and fit it to an adjustable front beam with normal wide-5
spindles.
This way you get everything you want: you can keep the wide-5 rims, you can lower the car, and you have disc brakes.
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| posted on February 11th, 2011 at 12:52 PM |
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Is this new beam linkpin or balljoint?
The frame head mounting for link pin beams is different to balljoint, you cant just bolt a late BJ beam into an early LP bug.
I've heard of people "panel beating" the mounts to fit which you may get away with in SA with no inspections but there will always be that hmmmm
factor there
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