Just A Quik Question

[Strictly_Derv 34]

Hi i'm going to be picking up a 1.9 beam with disks and calipers.

My car's beam has drums, and I know that when converting to disks on 106's you have to change the brake lines.

 

Does this apply on 205's? It's not a GTI and I have tried to search but not found exactly what I needed to know

 

 

Cheers

[tomcolinjones 26]

Hi i'm going to be picking up a 1.9 beam with disks and calipers.

My car's beam has drums, and I know that when converting to disks on 106's you have to change the brake lines.

 

Does this apply on 205's? It's not a GTI and I have tried to search but not found exactly what I needed to know

 

 

Cheers

 

You will definately need new flexi's...

I ran 1 pipe from the m/c to the back with the 1.9 'g' valve or whatewver it is called straped to the bulkhead, and a 'T" peice with one side going to each flexi hose.

[Strictly_Derv 34]

This beam come's with flexi hose's, would they not just fit where my old one's went?

[welshpug 1,646]

If its a base model then it'll go straight on, they use the same hoses from body to trailing arms.

 

You will need to fit the inline pressure regulators/compensators from a 1.9 though, the base models have them inside the rear wheel cylinders.

[Strictly_Derv 34]

How do I do that exactly?

 

I'm new to 205's so sorry for all the questions

[Anthony 1,002]

Assuming that they don't come with the beam, you will need different solid brake pipes that run along the trailing arms.

 

1.9 GTi's have a brake pressure compensator in each of the rear brake lines, just in front of the fuel tank as standard, whereas base models do not have these - the pressure compensators are built into the rear wheel cylinders. If you don't have the rear compensators and are using standard calipers, the rear wheels will lock-up before the fronts and is somewhat hairy - if not damned right dangerous - under medium-hard braking as a result.