How hard is it to put some big reds on the front on an 83 944?

Tell meh

 

Powerhaus sells the caliper adapters you will need. You'll also need 17" wheels. If you use the 928S4 or 993 calipers you can get by with 16" wheels.

 

I personally think Big Reds will be overkill on your car. 928S4 brakes are more than enough braking power for your car and will fit under 16" 951 fuchs with a 1/4" spacer.

S4's on my car:

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Tifo

 

I agree. Big Reds are too much. In fact with good pads the stock brakes work quite well even on the track.

BUT if you do want big brakes. Turbo S/ S4 are the ones you want.

 

I agree with the reds being to big but ive heard that it difficult to fit bigger brakes on a early 944, dunno where, but i got some 911 c2 -92 model front calipers available for cheap atm, and i wonder are these the same as the s4 brakes? or similar in some way? do i need adapters for them?

Thanx

 

I have a set of twin piston claipers from a 944 turbo, that I want to fit on my 924S. Do these require an adapter and spacer, or do I just need to mount the 944 Turbo hubs? Thanks

Louie

 

I'm interested in knowing about this also. I think the calipers are lacking something, sort of the same way the rear end lacks without the turbo/s2 valance.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Lousailor:
<strong>I have a set of twin piston claipers from a 944 turbo, that I want to fit on my 924S. Do these require an adapter and spacer, or do I just need to mount the 944 Turbo hubs? Thanks

Louie</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">944 turbos/S2 brakes are FOUR piston calipers...

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by dave120:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Lousailor:
<strong>I have a set of twin piston claipers from a 944 turbo, that I want to fit on my 924S. Do these require an adapter and spacer, or do I just need to mount the 944 Turbo hubs? Thanks

Louie</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">944 turbos/S2 brakes are FOUR piston calipers...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">I'm guessing he meant 2 pistions/side, i.e. 4 total (really 8 when you consider left & right combined). Kinda like people refer to the 16v head as a 4v head.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by dave120:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Originally posted by Lousailor:
<strong>I have a set of twin piston claipers from a 944 turbo, that I want to fit on my 924S. Do these require an adapter and spacer, or do I just need to mount the 944 Turbo hubs? Thanks

Louie</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">944 turbos/S2 brakes are FOUR piston calipers...</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Helvetica">Yup. And with good pads they provide awesome braking on my 951. Definitely enough for a 951 and more than enough for an n/a 944 or 924.
The big reds are overkill on a 944. Buy 951 brakes and put the money you save into engine upgrades so you can make use of those brakes.

 

My bust, I did mean two pistons per side four per caliper. The question remains would I need an adapter to mount these calipers to an NA? Thanks

Louie

 

You got to love a a nice big caliper.

 

I think you need to get turbo spindles to run them. I know that the turbo calipers don't fit the N/A cars. I'd like to find adaptors though, I have a cheap line on some turbo brakes.

 

To mount the 951 calipers, you'll need a lot of stuff, all from an early offset 951 (read:1986 model):

2 Spindles/hubs
2 Struts
4 mounting bolts for the calipers
2 rotors

optional:

SS brake lines
Blue fluid
951 brake bias valve

To mount S4 calipers, use the same list above, but:

substitute custom rotors for the 951 rotors

Add 2 adapters (Powerhaus, Koklen, etc) to fit the S4 calipers to the 951 spindle.

All of the above is pertaining to an 86 or older car. Late offset cars are different.

Tifo

 

Thanx tifo, but as my technical english isnt that good whats spindles? and struts is that the ones under the car or the dampers or something? the rest i get

thanx