Erik Heemstra
June 27th 2004, 11:21
Hello, I had already had front disc breakes, but I also wanted discs in the rear. I like to try to make things work by my self with homemade goodies. This is what I did: I cut the bearinghousing from a stock front disc and grinded it to a flat survice on the back. Then I took a stock rear drum and made a hub out of it. Remove as little as possible of mettal, till it fitts in the back of the disk. Then drillout the wheelmountingtreats out of the diskbrake and also drill a pair off small tapered holes to hold the disk to the hub. Use 1 cm longer bolts to bolt the wheel to the brakeasembly. Instead of the drumbackingplate you now fit a homemade calliperbracket made from 5mm thick steele. Rear porsche 914 callipers are rear and expencive so I used a pair from an Alfa Romeo Alfetta. It is also an ATE calliper with mecanical handbrake levers. Or try to find some simular calipers on a scrapyard frome a different brand of car. I made pictures during construction so if enyone wants to see the end resuld I can send you some pictures. This conversion moves your wheels about 1cm outwards. Sorry for my poor english writing but I hope you can read what I mean.