A few months ago A friend and I parted out a mk 3 golf. Some odd compatibilities that further the VW = automotive lego theory.
1- MK3 trunk carpet fits almost perfectly in a MK 1. Perfect enough that I'm using it currently (with a stopsign as a spare tire well cover, which is also a great fit).
2- The body-moulded side mirrors on a MK 3 follow the same contour as the front corner glass in MK 1 doors. Now if only I could figure out a good way of mounting them...
I've also heard of people mounting early BMW 3 series dashboards in MK 1's.. anyone heard about that?
I've got Scirocco 16v front brake calipers on the front and I modded my rear axle to fit the scirocco rearaxlepieces (dunno the exact english for that).. And i found out that Aluminum 38mm Golf/rabbit Mk4 or Audi A3 rearbrake calipers fit onto the mounts (also golf/rabbit mk2). One small mod is needed, the thread on the car is 8mm, the thread in the caliper is 10mm, so you need to fix a small brake line adapter from 8 to 10mm thread for that but most of the carpartstores overhere can create them on the spot with a special machine.
The advantage of the aluminium calipers is that the emergencybrakes don't rust to death.. and they look cool
Corrado seats fit nicely in a Mk1 too... just need to move the lengtadjustment to the other side of the rail
I've got half leather ones.. the seat is about 5 cm lower that the orignals.
Next things is a renault intercooler (Valeo manuf.) which fits exactly in front of my radiator: Coolingarea: 68x18,5x4 Totalsize: 85x19,5x5
I've got Scirocco 16v front brake calipers on the front and I modded my rear axle to fit the scirocco rearaxlepieces (dunno the exact english for that).. And i found out that Aluminum 38mm Golf/rabbit Mk4 or Audi A3 rearbrake calipers fit onto the mounts (also golf/rabbit mk2). One small mod is needed, the thread on the car is 8mm, the thread in the caliper is 10mm, so you need to fix a small adapter for that but most of the carpartstores overhere can create them on the spot with a special machine.
The advantage of the aluminium calipers is that the emergencybrakes don't rust to death.. and they look cool
Corrado seats fit nicely in a Mk1 too... just need to move the lengtadjustment to the other side of the rail I've got half leather ones.. the seat is about 5 cm lower that the orignals.
Next things is a renault intercooler (Valeo manuf.) which fits exactly in front of my radiator: Coolingarea: 68x18,5x4 Totalsize: 85x19,5x5
Really?
Any pics of the caliper swap?
And what part of Holland?
If you already have calipers on the rear axle you don't need to re-drill the boltpattern for the axle pieces (whats that in english?) of the calipermounts..
This is on a MK2:
You can see the adapter, it's the small copper brake like with on one side 8mm on the original brakeline and the 10mm goes into the caliper. I just replaced the complete copperlines on my axle because the flexible part is in the middle on a caddy.
I don't need that anymore... :lol:
The best calipers to use are 2000-2004 Golf MK4/A3/Seat Leon, those are Lucas C38HR-A with improved emergencybrake mechanism.
VW partno:
Left: 1J0 612 423 D
Right: 1J0 612 424 D
The bolt distance between the 2 bolts of the caliper should be 11.5cm. I used the calipermounts of the scirocco 16v.. because the aluminium mounts of the mk4 don't fit between the mount and the disc. pads and disca are scirocco too.
Copper? Only steel is legal here. The steel line fitting has to be a double flare or a bubble flar as well. Banjos and screw in flexible lines are also okay.
Steve
The original way the line is fixed onto the caliper is by banjo and flexible line.. so if someone can supply a line with that on one end and a screw on the other end where your cars'lines with bolt on, you'll be fine too.
And don't forget to mount a 22mm mastercylinder and booster (from a scirocco 16v for example) when upgrading the brakes.
And what part of Holland?
I live in the south... Tilburg.