Fitting 944 Brakes to Ball Joint Dropped Spindles

[Dr Ferdinand]

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and looking for some help and advise! It's probably been covered somewhere in the forums but I can't find it and will just end up confusing myself!

I have a set of front and rear disc's from an early 944 that I'm looking to fit to my bug. The bug is running ball joint front and swing axle rear. For the front I've found information as to what size bearing spacers I need and the amount of machining to the back of the porsche hub I would need to do in order for them to fit the vw spindle, however I'm stuck for working out how to mount the caliper. All the conversions I've seen for ball joint setups are done on std drum spindles and run the caliper off an adapter that bolts to the backing plate holes on the spindle. The problem is I've got dropped drum spindles and the holes for the backing plate are higher and the steering arm will be in the way for the caliper adapter to fit. Has anyone done a caliper mount for the drum dropped spindle or am I gonna have to swap for disc dropped spindles?

Any advise is welcomed.

I haven't looked at the fitting the rears yet so there maybe questions on that to follow!!

Cheers
Rob