brake upgrade for V6

[Scanny]

is there anything stopping me from putting FL VR4 brakes on a FL V6?

[Nick Mann]

Stud holes. I don't know if you can get appropriate discs with 4studs.

[Scanny]

i have had V6 brakes on a VR4 for a few days while i sourced EVO wheels for the brembo upgrade. is there a problem with drilling the discs to 4 stud? last year an engineering company drilled 4 to 5 stud for £20

[Confused]

I put VR4 brakes onto my PFL V6 I had, which included redrilling the brake discs to 4x114.3 - then drove it around for a year or so before selling the car, didn't have any issues with it in that time.

[Scanny]

thanks Garry. was there much difference and is it as simple as swapping the calipers, discs (drilled to 4 stud) and pads?

[Confused]

Yeah, very simple - swap over carriers, calipers, new disks and pads, and then just bleed through as you'd need to if you'd replaced with standard stuff.

[Gly]

swap the brake balance valve while your at it, its different for the vr4, vs N/A's

[Danzul]

On my FL V6 sport i had Evo 4 calipers and disks front and rear with Carbotech front pads and Green stuff on the rear.
It was a winning conversion for me although i never got to benefit fully from the conversion as i sold the car :(:( Iit was however a straight swap.
Don't know if that is of any help to you...

[Scanny]

arent the EVO 4 calipers the same as PFL VR4s which wont fit a 2000 V6 sport? thats why i needed the front hub carriers from my 2001 V6 to fit brembos to the VR4

[Nick Mann]

The 2000 v6 sport should already have the right hub carriers.

[Danzul]

arent the EVO 4 calipers the same as PFL VR4s which wont fit a 2000 V6 sport? thats why i needed the front hub carriers from my 2001 V6 to fit brembos to the VR4

The v6 calipers on my car had only 1 piston where as the evo 4 s have 2.

If am am right the VR$ is fitted with 276 disks where as some evos came with 276mm disks and some came with 294 mm disks.
I cant honestly remember for the life of me which i had on mine but they bolted straight up to mine.

Mine was a FL and they bolted straight up.
just make sure you use the v6 bolts on the rear calipers when bolting the up to the hub, i spent a while wondering why the back wheels kept nipping up when i did the wheel nuts up, turns out the evo bolts where about 3-4 mm longer and touch on the disk.

[Scanny]

the V6 discs are 276mm but the PFL VR4 and EVO 4 are 294mm. on the front anyway, no idea about the size of any of the rear discs