► The Volkswagen Racing Big Brake packages
The Volkswagen Racing Big Brake Conversion gives a real supercar look and feel in the braking department. A much bigger disc 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 developed this brake kit for our Volkswagen Racing
cars, and have now used them on numerous track and road
cars built by RacingLine.
We needed a front and rear 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 development programme. This Volkswagen Racing Front and Rear Big Brake kit is the result.
The front callipers are ultra-lightweight 6 piston
units, finished in red with the ‘R’ logo engraved in.
These clamp enormous 360 mm ventilated and drilled
floating discs. This set up reduces the unsprung
weight of the standard brakes, and unsurprisingly
provides significantly better braking, both in terms of
pedal response and resistance to fade in hard use.
Built specifically for the Golf 5 platform cars (so suitable for A3, Leon, Jetta, Octavia, Eos, TT, Caddy and so on), the front brakes require a minimum wheel diameter of 18” because of the disc size. The kit fits straight onto any of these cars without modification.
The rear kit (available separately, but we recommend
fitment with our front kit) retains the standard rear
calliper but provides a larger, 2-piece rear drilled
disc. A spacer bracket relocates the calliper in
order to match the larger disc.
Please note that as high performance brakes, pad and disc life tends to be shorter when used hard than the standard brakes would be.