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Old August 13th 2019, 15:02
Simon Simon is offline
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The focus is currently on wrapping up the initial suspension and brake setup.
As many other projects the basics are an upgrade to 944 parts, in the front mainly for the ventilated brakes and in the rear mainly for the wider track as well as for being able to use disc brakes.

For now for the front suspension I'll be using early 944 spindles and hubs combined with early 944 struts with B6 sports Bilstein inserts for a beetle (Bilstein P30-0040) which I modded a long time ago with a coil-over sleeve and combined with 60mm Eibach ERS springs (main + tender).
The Bilstein gland nut centers and secures the coil-over sleeve in place.
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In the end the plan is to use M030 944 spindles and hubs with proper coil-overs for late 944 but I don't have a solution yet for the positive camber the M030 spindles (or it could be it's just late spindles in general) introduce over early 944 spindles and for now I'd also like to keep my stock speedometer. Early 944 spindles with the speedometer cable hole are a lot easier to work with for that

The brakes will probably be Boxster (986) front calipers with 911 3.2 front discs (they are also 24mm thick like Boxster front discs, but a bit smaller in diameter (282.5mm vs 298mm for the Boxster fronts)).
I'm not a big fan of these discs though since they are quiet heavy (5.6kg) and a bit small in diameter so I'm still looking at alternatives.

Last edited by Simon; August 20th 2019 at 06:47.
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