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Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:08:46 +1200
Reply-To:     Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From:         Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject:      Hansen brake kits #3
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Comments: cc: caravelleausnz@yahoogroups.com
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>From: "Raimund Feussner" <rfeussner@gmx.de> >To: "Andrew Grebneff" <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> >Subject: Re: Hansen brake kits >Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 15:42:19 +0100 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 >X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c - (http://www.inflex.co.za/) > > >>Was the center part of the kit, or did the owner have to have it >custom-made? > >Yes, it is part of Hansenīs brake conversion kit. > >>>Hansen provides new hubs where the porsche rotors with 5x112mm center fit >>>onto. >>Excellent (though I bet their pricesare excellent too... from Hansen's >>point of view!). > >Thatīs what I think, too! > >>I don't have my van available here to look at the rear hubs, but you havew >>been there and done that. It would have been nice if a rear caliper >>carrier was simple to have machined from steel or some ultrahigh-strength >>fatigue-resistant aluminum alloy. > >The stock rear bearing housing doesnīt have the two bolt holes for the >calipers. >The hub itself is nothing more than a steel wheel with the 5 studs in it. >easy to machine to fit under rotors. > >The bearing housing is mounted onto the rest of the suspension with 4 >screws. Iīll attach a drawing with our idea of a U-shaped caliper adapter. >This was our idea to simulate the Oettinger housing with the caliper mounts. > >>The jpegs of the rear calipers and backingplate...are these Oettinger parts >>too? Any idea what they cost? > >All of that is Oettinger. No idea of the costs. Oettinger all delivers a >complete 4-disc-kit, not single parts of it. > >>Ben Tan looked at fitting the solid front rotors to the back, making an >>aluminum rotor carrier. > >Just remove the brake drum. behind it is the hub with the studs where you >could put a rotor onto. Look at the drawing. > >>Because of handbrake actuation he gave up this >>idea. > >Audi rear caliüers have a built-in provision for the handbrake cable. > >> I can get a complete bolt-on kit in Australia for about $330US, but >>it would be nice to have Porsche all round! > >Wow! Thatīs quite cheap. Any info about this kit? Which parts are used? > >>This becomes a problem if I ever want to return the vehicle to stock for >>selling... > >No problem for the front. Remove the brakes and the old machined rotor/hub >and buy a new stock vanagon rotor (service interval parts). Finished. > >Raimund > > > > >Attachment converted: 6116CD:Bild1.gif (GIFf/JVWR) (00001E08)


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