911 rear brakes on t1
 

Has anyone adapted 911 rear brakes to a t1. I've got the complete rear arms, calipers and hubs. Wondering if they fit?

The arms are too long to fit an unmodified Bug pan. The torsion tube sits further forward from the wheel centerline in a 911. Using the 911 brakes on VW suspension parts is a lot harder than fitting 944 parts. To a used Porsche parts place the 911 parts are more valuable than 944 parts, here in Holland a Porsche wrecking yard won't even pick up a 944 for free if the engine isn't running. You may be able to swap your parts for 944 parts, arms, brakes, and possibly the springplates and torsion bars. That would be pretty much a bolt on to an IRS pan.

Hope it helps,

Brian

I'm using 993 rears on my IRS car. Not mounted yet, but from what I understand they bolt on with 944 rearend parts. You could use late 944 trailing arms or stock VW arms with early 944 hubs an brackets.

I like the idea of swaping the 911 stuff for 944 stuff. Already have a ghia front end but would like vented disks up front. Going to a swap meet next weekend, have to see what I can find.

Lightning Bug, The 993 rear brakes will pretty much bolt on to any alloy 944/968 arm with '86 (early alloy arm) hubs. I learned from Jim that the mounting ears of the caliper may need clearancing in such a way the calipers center over the rotor properly.

Hope it helps,

Brian

Thanks Brian. I'm going with the early 944/stock VW trailing arm set-up b/c I don't want the added track. I believe the alloy arms add to your track.

Yes, they do add track, the early (1986) hubs between 30 to 35mm per side I believe, with a high ET Porsche wheel this would become less of a problem and you may still need spacers to bring the wheel out, especially with the 8x17 ET 70.

Brian