Do you want big brake Porsche - Brembo 4 piston calipers?

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If you are interested in a big brake kit (Brembo/Porsche 4 piston calipers)
to your aircooled Volkswagen please read this. There is an Organization
called BIRA - Brake Improvement Research Association. Their website is
<a href="http://www.bira.org" target="_top">BIRA</a> and they offer low
cost adapter kits for watercooled Volkswagens and Audis. I have not
dealt with them nor am associated with them in any way. It appears that
they do the research to adapt the brakes and then sell the adapter
hardware and the car owner supplies the discs and calipers. What I have
read on their site is that these kits, complete install, can be had for
around $1100. The Porsche kits simular to this are between
$3500 - $5000. I wrote to Greg Amy of BIRA requesting that a kit
for aircooled VWs could be developed. His reply was that if there was a
large enough demand for the adapter kits that BIRA would do the research.
The email correspondence between he and I is posted below. I urge all
aircooled VW owners to write Greg,<a href="mailto:grega@pobox.com?subject=BIRA for AC VW">grega@pobox.com</a> and show the demand and support for the need of these kits!!!

> <<"Superman" <superman@centurytel.net> 01/22/01 05:55PM>>
> Sir,
>
> I have just reviewed your site and find it very interesting. I have
> been doing my own "big brake" reseach for my 1973 VW Super
> Beetle since 1996. All my info applies to my car but other aircooled
> Volkswagens are simular. I request please that BIRA could offer
> kits available for the early Beetles and other aircooled VWs. Lastly,
> I own an Audi 4000S, VW A2 Jetta 16V, and the above mentioned
> Beetle and hope to have Brembo 4 piston calipers on all of them.
>
> Sincerely, "Superman"
> >
> From: Greg Amy<grega@pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: BIRA
> To: superman@centurytel.net
>
> Hi, thanks for the interest. We already have solutions for the New
> Beetles, which are the same as the Golfs, and the Audi TTs...
>
> As for the older Beetles, if there is demand, we'd consider doing it.
>
> GA