Fitting Porsche Brakes to a 1302

[Simon]

Originally Posted by evilC

The way you did goes some way to what I am thinking but there are a few points of difference:
1) The stock TCA will be discarded and a new A arm in CHS will be fabricated with the triangulated link being in compression rather than the tension arrangement you have, the connecting point of the triangulation being closer to the stub axle end. I'm not sure yet whether the inner bush will be retained or bit the bullet and go full heim joint.
2) The ball joint end will have a heim joint to enable the camber to be adjusted.
3) The compression strut of the A arm will have a heim joint at each end to enable the caster to be adjusted in situ.
4) The AR bar will have a separate pair of heim joints as yours but will be solidly located to the A arm and not through the old TCA bush.

Are you planning on doing this?

Just to be sure:
Would you still use the inner mountingpoint of the stock LCA?

I've always wondered why the 935 setup uses a tension arrangement, nice to see you'd use a compression one

I know i've said it before, but a heim-joint/rod-end at the outer side of the A-arm isn't really good design. the axial load is OK (though it's made to withstand a much larger radial load), but mainly because of the bending you apply to the shank of the rod-end.
A spherical bearing mounted in the A-arm is a much better design.

And do you think you'll gain a lot with adjustable caster?

[pantswagen]

got to be a vag part

[Simon]

Originally Posted by pantswagen

got to be a vag part

Why do you think so?

[Axl]

Man , I'm a mechanic , and you guys are into this beyond what even I would have been thinking of . This thread has got me thinking more about what I'm going to do . The one thing I was thinking about when someone had mentioned about the ball joint shaft being too large is that you can get a tapered reamer to enlarge the hole for the joint , if you want to use that spindle .