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944 rear disc and caliper assembly |
The arms will clean up well, they are just covered in road grime. |
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This is the complete rear axle from a 944, the torsion bar and trailing arms come off the car as a subframe. |
Front parts shown with a drum brake spindle from a beetle, this is used due to its flange being better suited to adaptation for the new caliper. |
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These are the wheels I will use all round. I wanted to keep a stock appearance and these have a big enough offset to cancel out the increase in track of the 944 brakes (24mm per side). I will have them powdercoated in silver shortly so they will look very similar to 356 'C' wheels. They are 15" x 5,5J with a 53mm offset. |
I am using the 944 master cylinder for the increased volume of brake fluid required by the new calipers. I may end up swappign the outputs around so the bigger circuit goes to the rear brakes as my weight distribution is quite rear biased. |
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This is the above wheel after blasting, powdercoating and then laquering. I can definitely recommend 'Bourne Powdercoating' in Birmingham, they only took a few days and was only £15 a wheel! I have ordered some Bridgestone Potenza tyres in 195/60R15 to go with them form mytyres.net. |
Just for you Mike! |
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Here are the front DRUM spindles with the rear spot-aced for the caliper adapters. I will post detailed drawings of the parts needed for the complete front swap once I have checked them. They should be ready next week! I have stripped back all the calipers and repainted them already. |
Here the inner bearing has been pressed in with its spacer. |
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Outer bearing fitted. |
The drum brake spindle needed sliught clearancing, the raised ring fouled the back of the 944 hub. |
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Assembled spindle with spacer fitted. I am using spacers as I want to use the same wheels on all corners. The spacers are off the rear hubs, they needed modifying to fit on the front hubs. |
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I did a quick measure of the beetle and converted hubs and the increase in width (without spacers) is actually quite small, if anything. |
Fitted to the car..... |
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You can't make it out, but the speedo cable sits through the Porsche cover plate. |
The 944 master cylinder was necessary, as the beetle one did not have enough volume for the front calipers. Although, the beetle master cylinder IS fine with 944 rear and beetle front discs. It was necessary to fit a T piece to keep the brake light switch, I did this in the rear line as the one that was fitted was too short to reach the rear output on the 944 m/cyl. |
