Just wondering, how easy it it to swap the brakes on my Elegance for bigger ones (Seat Racing brakes for the Ibiza?)

It has drums at the back so can I swap them to disks at the same time?

Not very mechanically minded so would probably have to get a garage to do it as I don`t want to do it myself and end up with no brakes!

The seat brakes are every expensive (mainly because they are from a dealer) Put it this way, for the price of one new caliper oj its own, i could get the entire front setup done with 323mm 1 piece discs and brembo 4 pot calipers.

A common brake upgrade is the 312mm discs and calipers from the mk4 platform golfs, mk 1leons and mk1 octavia vRS. No idea if you can upgrade drums to discs as a one for one swap??

Im thinking of fitting the Mk 4 Golf R32 332mmx32 twin pot front brakes.

Mine will have to fit under my 16" winter wheels so think the 332mm brakes might be too big.

Id presume the seat upgrade will be no good either.

312mm discs and calipers are what you need.

On a 1.2 you going to have to change the hubs and bearings as well as you have FSIII brakes and the carrier is part of the bearing housing.

oh so bascially i`d need the entire rear beam and front hub assembly?

Would Wilwoods fit on the front without lots of hassle? Had them on my 205 and really liked them. Just want to get the car looking a bit better with some disks at the back as well.

The rear beam is the same, you just need the callipers, carriers heat shields, brake lines and handbrake cables.

As for upgrading the front if you want o go bigger you have to change the bearing housing. The carrier is part of the hub and can't be removed so you can't fit any other caliper. I've done the same as my MPi is now running vRS brakes all around.

sounds like the fronts are a bit of a pig to do then.

So I could get the rears converted quite easily to, say, the same size as a smaller engined versions front disks?

There is only one standard rear disc size iirc for the Fabia. There are a couple of vRSs breaking on here atm, see what he wants for the rear set up.

So the Mk 1 rear disk setup should fit straight onto my Mk 2?

Apologies to revive this thread, but came onto this using the search, and I would like to know how your modifications went through and what parts did u purchase?

Thanks