supercedar

Hi,

I'm using my dad's account to get some info about my 1985.5 944. I want to upgrade the brakes. I'd like to have Porsche calipers. Looking for some suggestions!

Thanks!

Gretchen

Dimi 944

You have pretty much one option if you want to stick with OEM components, keep your offset and your car has the aluminum trailing arms. I did it myself on one of my 944s. The parts are as follows:

Front spindles and hubs from '86 944 Turbo
Front Brembo calipers from '86 944 Turbo
Front struts from '86 944 Turbo
Rear Brembo calipers with spacer washers from '86 944 Turbo

If you happen to chose that route, I happen to have all of the listed items available for sale.

Good luck!

fejjj

Dimi 944 is a great guy to deal with and you can trust him.

turboS_swede

Stock brakes are more than up to the job on the street and on the track with a proper set of brake pads and braided brake lines. Are you running into overheated brakes on the track? Are you unable to lock the tires up?

Many times, stickier tires will improve braking performance since the tires are stops the car, the brakes stop the wheels. Brakes require a certain amount of temperature to work and they have a working range, depending on the brake pads and fluid you choose in combination with the overall mass of the braking and wheel systems.

Read this article:

http://www.scirocco.org/faq/brakes/p...n/pfpage1.html

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/stop/

The Brembo brakes aren't really much better than a well setup set of stock brakes. The uprights are more prone to flex, negating the gains in stiffness the brembo calipers provide over the stock single piston units. Rebuilds are expensive, assuming you can find the parts. If you just want something that says Porsche on it, get some stickers for the stock calipers, paint the calipers red, yellow, etc. and apply the stickers with a fresh set of Pagid, Axis, etc. pads and get back to driving the car.

If you really want to go crazy with over-sized brakes:

http://944hybrids.forumotion.com/t7-...big-brake-swap (you'll need to sign up to see the pics)

https://rennlist.com/forums/944-turb...-86-951-a.html

Dimi 944

I agree to certain extend. However, after I did upgrade my brakes to the 951 Brembos my pads and rotors lasted much longer and I was able to out brake the cars with stock brakes on the track.

Darryl H

I used adapters from "The Porsche Shop" and fitted 986 4 pot Brembo callipers to my '86 Lux using stock discs.

You only need the adapters and callipers to do the conversion everything else just bolts up.