Rear hub with 928 bearing and increased offset, 928 Hybrid trailing arm, 944 brakes, extended hub offset, parking brak Options

[Wilhelm]

Few pics of a project I'm working on to break up the misery or paint, bondo and rust removal on my V-8 SBC conversion. I'm going to do the sheridan body work on my car and found these wheels which I liked.




The problem is the wheels are 10 inches wide with an offset of 2 inches. In searching the web site it seems that most people with this combo have gone with 3" spacers. This seemed like it would put a lot of force on the bearing and I still would not have many other rear brake options. So.... I found some rear 928 hubs on ebay. the bearings are much larger: 85mm diameter and 47mm wide (versus stock 75mm diameter x 37mm long) and this would provide me with other 5 lug rear brake options. So off to the barn.



First, put a piece of 5 inch 1.25 inch wall DOM(Drawn Over Mandrel steel tubing) in the lathe.

[Wilhelm]

Cut off everything that didn't look like rear hub.........




Cut the sides off for the 928 brake shoe backing plates.




And was left with new hub that could hold a larger (928) bearing. Sure is purty at this point. I'm finally getting the hang of turning parts. The 2 critical dimensions in this hub are the diameter of the bearing bore and the length of the bearing bore back to the its front which is a large circlip. I was confident I got these within 1/1000. Everything else can be done in hundreths.