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.

[charliew]

Wilhelm I have been anxiously waiting to see the rest of your solution ie the spacers inbetween the cv's and stub. I have some 18x11 turbo wheels waiting. I may, to save the machine work just use the 914 bearing and hub and just move it out but the spacer will be interesting. I think it will need to be mild steel to have 6 threaded holes for the cv and 6 more counterbored for the stub flange. Might as well make it the length you need to use the axles you have. I haven't looked close but it looks like the inside of the new wide wheel is just about where the stock wheel is. I hope the wheel wells are not any closer than the control arm.
Looks great sofar.