i think i made a mistake!!!!

[steve1234]

i have purchased a set of porsche 996 callipers from e bay, having been at work all day long i came home and decided to browse e bay, i spotted a pair of 996 four pot callipers i bid on them and won! but too my horror after i payed for them i noticed in the description that they were REAR 996 callipers!!!!!!!! can anyone put my mind at ease and tell me can i still use these callipers on the front of my s2 and do they differ in size from the front callipers? if they are ok what is the best set up for the 996 callipers? ie do i need different size discs, wheres the best place to purchase the discs and pads???? please please can any one help? all help much appreciated guys, i will see some of you at leeds festival on sunday, it should be a good day.

[20vQC]

Dude... hhmmmm... that's a little bad mistake hehehe re-sell them!!!

[Azman]

Doable I believe but not favourable...

[newsh]

The rears have smaller pots, less braking power

[Jon441cc]

Keep'em for the rears

[Acidburn]

Yeah I saw the auction i was thinking about going for it and missed them, iirc its the handbrake set-up which is alkward on them.

[kwlw]

can anyone put my mind at ease and tell me can i still use these callipers on the front of my s2 and do they differ in size from the front callipers? if they are ok what is the best set up for the 996 callipers?

It depends what is part number of those calipers. If they are small rears, then it's not possible for you to put them "A8 disc+rs2 bracket" way. If they are bigger rears - you can play expensive game (like I did) and to have rubbish brake for big money . I'm running rears on the front. To make decent deceleration and lock sticky tires, you need to apply ~50kg of force to pedal (due to small pistons). Really hard. Also S2 brake balance will go to the rear (I'm running typ85, so this was not an issue).

If I was living in civilized country and had ability to sell the calipers - I would done that immediately. However I'm not .

Sau