porsche brakes on T2

[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.