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.

[roadster fan]

Nice work, wish I had some of those tools (IMG:style_emoticons/default/pray.gif)

Here is a pic of the trailing arms with the reinforcements like you described, cant remember who did these (Shea (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) ). Chris Foley was doing the reinforcement by cutting/sectioning the arm and welding in a plate....kinda hard to describe.



Keep us posted on the progress,

Jim