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]

Found a some 11 gauge 4.75" outside diameter tubing, cut it to length and beveled one end.




Then pressed it into place.



Then practiced the TIG welding. Sure like that alot, no mess, no spatter but a steeper learning curve than mig. If you look closely, you'll see some bung welds about 5/8" down from the main weld. Just being a bit anal retentive. Doubt this was necessary as I put the press to the limit shoving the hub into the tubing.