►VWR Big Brake Kit

The Volkswagen Racing Big Brake Conversion gives a real supercar look and feel in the braking department.  A much bigger disc and pad area gives greater heat capacity, thus reducing the effect of fade, whilst the stiffer calipers and stainless steel brake lines reduce the compliance in the braking system.

We need a front brake kit that can stand up to the demands of circuit racing, yet is affordable and reliable.  Surprisingly, none of the established brake companies could offer us what we wanted, so we commissioned our own exclusive development programme with our partners Caparo AP Braking. The VWR Big Brake Kit is the result.

The front callipers are lightweight aluminium forged large-pad units, finished in red with the Volkswagen Racing script in white (R32 owners can place a special order for blue callipers to match their car).  The clamp large 352mm ventilated and grooved 2 piece discs.  This set up reduces the unsprung weight of the standard brakes, and unsurprisingly provides dramatically better braking, both in terms of pedal response and resistance to fade in hard use.

We use exactly this brake set up for road, track or race - for full race we simply use different dust seals due to the high operating temperatures.  Either road or race can be specified.