944 install on swingaxle -- DONE.........

[danielzink]

Here's some pics I put together quickly.

944 rear

Got the rears done last night.
Hope to have the fronts (king&link) done and pics by the weekend.

Dan

[boygenius]

Vey nice set-up you got there. Those should make your car stop pretty good. :agree:

[seanmc]

Looks great! Nice work there.

I have a 1976 Swingaxle beetle and am wondering if the same machining dimensions apply to it at the rear?

I am mid-upgrade with the front 944 brakes all round as currently I only have the fronts on my workbench but having found a complete smashed up non-turbo 944 in a scrapyard I can get the rears quite easily (got there first!) its just a matter of making them fit. Not sure of the year though of the 944 but does it make a difference on the rears?

Any advice would be great

[danielzink]

I'm not sure about the non-turbo machining.

Right now I'm not completely happy with the sealing of the rear (at the backing plate to axle flange (where I had to take the 74 thou. off). I'm getting some seepage there that is bothering me.
MBT makes a set of backing plates that use the stock type1 paper gaskets etc. to stop this seeping...but I have'nt been able to get ahold of MBT for about a month now.


Dan

[Ian66]

Hi,

I'm still collecting parts to do the same conversion you've done here, but i'm not exactly sure what you've used.

I've got the 83 944 hubs that I will soon have the 15mm removed from the center of the hub.

I'm not so sure about the disc rotors.... I've looked at 944 turbo from the 1986 era, and they appear to have a longer hat section on them, which to me looks like they'd be rubbing on the trailing arm plate unless a spacer were used underneith the rotor (on top of the hub)

Which rotors have you used? Are the just 83 ventilated 944 S style, (non turbo) ?

Last of all, the backing plates.... I've tracked down a pair of aluminium backing plates with the emergency brake assemblies from a 86 944 turbo. I'm pretty sure these are what you've used, but i'd like to be 100% positive before I order them.

Can you please offer some advice?

Cheers,

Ian.

[danielzink]

plate unless a spacer were used underneith the rotor (on top of the hub) Which rotors have you used? Are the just 83 ventilated 944 S style, (non turbo) ?

Rear rotors were 86 only 944t #951-352-041-01 (that part numer is for crossdrilled - I believe you omit the 01 for non crossdrilled)

all, the backing plates.... I've tracked down a pair of aluminium backing plates with the emergency brake assemblies from a 86 944 turbo. I'm pretty sure these are what

Yes - they will "work".....there may be some leakage at the axle flange when using the 944 aluminum backing plates. That's how I had it set up at first. After a high speed run down the highway - I would get seepage at the backing plate - not horrible - but enough to bother me.

http://www.mbt-engineering.de/ makes a set of backing plates that uses the stock bearing cap and gaskets (as you can see from my pictures) so theres -no- leakage. I've got a few sets of these backing plates if anyone else (in the U.S. and/or Canada) is interested. Being as I'm in the U.S. it may be cheaper for you (in Queensland) to go directly through MBT.

Dan

[Pillow]

Looks great Dan!

Please keep us posted on the rest of the process on the front.

[danielzink]

Please keep us posted on the rest of the process on the front.

Oh No - this thing is done.

Front and rears have been done for some time now...actually I drove most of this past summer on the brakes.

Awesome to say the least.....

My current (winter) project is installing a Kafer bar.....a balmy 6 degrees here in Michigan today......



Dan

[Typ Vier]

Nice setup Dan, :agree:

The cast backing plates appear to be 924 S/ Turbo parts. I prefer them to the aluminium ones as they hardly wear at the bottom where the brake shoes rest.
Well Done