porsche brakes on T2

[justdubbin]

Originally Posted by SilverBullet

How about www.franklinsvwwerks.com? They are on the link page. They have 944 4pot brakes and 993tt rotors with monoblocks

The biggest problem is the Hand/Emergency parking brake,
Here in the UK you HAVE to have a cable operated emergency brake to pass the M.O.T. (road worthyness test) and this is what most people fint difficult to overcome, the best way around this it would seem is to use alloy 944 rear trailing arms (easy on a splitty as you have to start from sctrach to install IRS anyway) but just howmany people have done this on a bay???????
I wouldn't even know where to start to maintain the correct geometry


Rob.

[slammedbay]

I think the alloy arms may be too wide for a bay as they add at least an inch to the track width each side [from memory] you may get away with it as you have a late bay with more space in the arches at the back... with my early bay, there's very little space between the arch lip and the tyre [195/60's on 7" 52mm offset 'dials] 22mm of that is the wheel adaptor, but the early 944 setup will increase the track by a bit too so space will be limited!

Handbrake cables: easy! Get speedy cables to make some up for you... from what i understand thay are very acommodating, you just need to give them all the measurements!

Ollie

[jc_geddes]

How are you two guys getting on with your brake conversions?

I have just made the 2 5mm spacers and inserted them behind the bearing seats. Whne tightened up there is still play, as if the bearings are loose. It appears that the spacers need to be a bit bigger then 5mm, I am going to check today, so will beable to report back.

On another note how compatable are the 4 pot brembo calipers with the vented disks from the sigle sliding caliper, there looks like a fair amount of difference between the thickness of the two disks.

Cheers

John

[justdubbin]

Hi John,

Things have hit a brick wall as far as my brake conversion goes
I got stitched up by customs with a £250:00 bill when my brakes arrived from the US
I'm still trying to figure out what to do at the rear end,
I think I may either put the complete rear end from a 944 or just the spring plates & hub assembly (this will probably be the way I will go) if I can find the correct size, the other thing that is causing me difficulties is I want to use wheel bolts as opposed to studs so it will give me that extra inch or so, making it slightly easier to fit the rear wheels which means I am going to have to get 996 rear hubs!!
Heres a pic of my brakes

sorry about the size

look
for the front:here
for the rear: here

[Erwinvs]

Originally Posted by jc_geddes

I have just made the 2 5mm spacers and inserted them behind the bearing seats. Whne tightened up there is still play, as if the bearings are loose. It appears that the spacers need to be a bit bigger then 5mm, I am going to check today, so will beable to report back.

You are right John.I made them 0,5mm higher en the problem was gone!!
I masured it up and the Hub had to go 11mm up.

Then you can make a bracet for the brakes of 6mm. and bold it on to your spindle!!

Originally Posted by Fred100

but which material usinf for space the bearing ??? aluminium?

I used Iron because of the size of the spacers, There not that big. My meaning was that Aluminuim is too weak for those sizes!!

[Michael Ghia]

Any update on these conversions?
Sorry if I got it wrong with the bearing spacing difference... whats 1mm between friends

Seriously though... good work..


MG

[Erwinvs]

Originally Posted by Michael Ghia

Any update on these conversions?
Sorry if I got it wrong with the bearing spacing difference... whats 1mm between friends

Seriously though... good work..


MG

It could be a difference between the wheel on properly or lossing the wheel on the highway
Hope to post pictures next week on how i dit it.