porsche brakes on T2

[boygenius]

I think www.vdubcustoms.com has a kit with N/A brakes. I'm sure Lanner would be happy to adapt some turbo calipers to his kit for you.

[zen]

PM or email Pillow. he is only on here occasionally. he did a 944NA conversion on his split and is pretty well versed in the options.

ok... thank's guys

[Michael Ghia]

I looked into doing this when I had a Bay window Westy.
To fit up front is not bad, you need to space the bearings 10mm further apart (at a 5mm spacer behind the inner and outer bearings) and then the hub will fit onto your T2 spindle. They use the same bearings.
Then you need to make up a pair of caliper adaptors and off you go!... well its never quite that easy

At the back, its a lot more difficult. There is nothing in common with Porsche stuff. I was going to look at drilling the hub for Porsche studs, slipping the Porsche disk over the top and then make up a plate which bolts to the rear arm and accepts the Porsche backing plate... but I never got that far so don't know if any of that will work.

Good luck.

MG

ok thank you...

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

thank you

fred

[slammedbay]

Been doing alot of research with a couple of friends into porsche discs on the rear of a bay, we think we're close to a workable solution and it's suprisingly straight forward!

Remove original a-arm mounts and replace with bug items with modified profile to suit bus torsion tube. The position of these will have to be measured carefully from a bug/porsche.

Modify bus springplates using porsche springplates as template to take 944 a-arms and disc assembly.

Bolt everything up... hand brake mech. will need some work, cable manufacturer should be able to knock something up.

The only bit i've not resolved, is whether the bus master cylinder can still be used or a 944 one can be fitted without too much modification.

I'm open to comments/thoughts etc...

nb. these ideas are based around using an early 944 rear setup.

Ollie

ps. - Mike... Hope you're enjoying Oxford

[justdubbin]

Slammed we need to talk, I'm replacing the brakes on my '71' bay in the next few weeks for 996 turbo... front & rear.


Rob.

P.S. I'm in Bristol aswell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!