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Old June 27th 2004, 11:21
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lowbudged reardiscbrake conversion

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.
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Old June 27th 2004, 16:42
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That sounds very good Erik!
Would you please also 'publish' your results on www.keversite.com/forum/index.php if you like?
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Old June 28th 2004, 00:58
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Post some pictures here also. I always like new ideas in brake construction.
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Old June 28th 2004, 07:19
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A Tech Article would be nice too :agree:
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Old June 28th 2004, 21:21
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Wow, what a simple idea. Does it work well?
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Old June 28th 2004, 23:36
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Hey Wally,

What is that language the site is written in? I would like to use some language converter to be able to read what is being written.

Thanks in advance.
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Old June 29th 2004, 15:48
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Hey Wally,

What is that language the site is written in? I would like to use some language converter to be able to read what is being written.

Thanks in advance.
It's Dutch.
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