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Hi, I've been working on a kit car that has a ghia chassis as a base, and I'm at a point where the brakes need to be gone through as this is going to be a quasi trackcar.
Has anyone done a super beetle brakes swap on a ghia. It is a later model ghia because it has the balljoint front suspension.
Any insight at all as to what would be needed would be great.
Thanks for the help,
Brian S.
Late superbeetle ( USA ) Models are 4 wheel drum brakes. Ball joint Karmann Ghias and European disc brake super beetles use the SAME brakes.
Hey once again like ta mention that it,s also possible too go with larger drumm brakes off rear axles of of the vann,s as opposed too all 4 disc brake system . Sean
Sean.. I've done that too. Put van brakes on a bug, but this was very early ('50s) 5 bolt hubs. Do you know if this can be done with newer models? Does this eman you then need to fit porche pattern wheels?
Brian S .. I have a car similar to a kit car. about 1300 pound weight. Standard VW disks on the front and Type 3 drums on the rear. I run it on a race circuit often and these brakes a quite adequate. No fade lap after lap. This is much better than typical modern cars. However.. I have less than 100hp. I suspect if you had 150hp or more then rear drums might fade with lots of hard breaking. The only problem I have had is that the front disks tend to lock before the rear drums and I have fitted a proportioning valve on the front circuit to fix this. works well. Actually, this is less a problem on the track than on the road because the surface on the track is much better and you get more weight transfer to the front.
Cheers, Brian
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