Porsche caliper braided hoses

[-Neil-]

For those who have fitted Porsche calipers to their M's, what did you do for a braided hose solution?

From looking around the front hose length is the same as the E46 M3 but the rears are a two piece which I'll just replace with the one hose, I've measured the whole length of the two hoses and pipe to be just over 700mm.

For the fronts these:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E46-M3-FR ... 2590acfc4d

Neil.

[adam1985]

Hey just been looking into this myself all be it on a non M.
Seems alot of people have had the rear lines made up, Gargybloke mentions it in this thread below
http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/viewtopic ... rt#p517910

Hel will make lines to order if their kit isnt what you want.

[TomK]

This is what I used, HEL lines, work perfectly.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E46-M3-RE ... 19dae018cb

[-Neil-]

This is what I used, HEL lines, work perfectly.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E46-M3-RE ... 19dae018cb

Cheers, I take it those will only replace the rear lower hose and not both?

I think I might just let the garage choose the lengths and fittings best suited to our cars and then have them made them up by Merlin Motorsport at castle combe.

Neil.

[TomK]

Not totally sure what you mean. Only one hose goes to each caliper, there are two nipples for bleeding purposes. I might be wrong though as no mechanic

Edit: Thomas at porsche calipers (the link I gave is their ebay store I think) knows pretty much everything about these boxster/bmw conversions. Give him a call, nice chap. I transferred my setup from my e46 m3 which used the mentioned lines to the Z4MC and there was no issue, a little tighter perhaps but nothing to worry about at all.

[-Neil-]

Each rear caliper only one hose connected to it, but the hose is two pieces with a fixed pipe in the middle like so:

Caliper>Hose>Pipe (on upright)>Hose>Pipe (on car)

So you'll still have a section of oem rubber hose on each side about a foot long or so.

I think I bumped into you a few months ago at the ragged cot, we parked alongside each other

Neil.

[TomK]

Ha ha, yes indeed I remember that!

From recollection I'm pretty certain that the hose goes directly from the caliper to the pipe on the car, there is a little plastic guide clip that the hose goes through on the upright but does not need to be split.

Hope to see you around sometime