Hey Pete, I definitely remember the Green Gallardo! The way you guys were eyeing the beetle I was sure you were Air-cooled guys. Warwick and I were having a good laugh about that.
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Sometimes staying with the 'standard' stuff really is more challenging then going with better components. Check out the brake-line routing required to mount up the "popular" rear disc kits for Beetles. These kits use a Ford rear caliper, so first off you have an imperial-to-metric adapter, which is leaving the car out towards the tailpipes. A quick 180 with brake line but then you need a 100mm flex line to allow for caliper movement on the sliders. From there it's standard hardline into the standard beetle flex line. It's as neat as I can make this setup...but the whole time I was thinking about how much easier a set of Wilwoods would be!
-Dave