>Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 00:30:23 +1200
>To: "Raimund Feussner" <rfeussner@gmx.de>
>From: andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Andrew Grebneff)
>Subject: Re: Hansen brake kits
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>Dear Raimund
>
>>Hu? These photos are from a Vanagon front axle! You didn�t had a look at
>>your vanagon suspension recently, had you?
>
>Wonderful, that's really good. I've never had a front wheel off my T3! In
>fact I only had the thing 3 months before the trans died on a trip to
>Christchurch, 365km north of here, and it's been in storage there for the
>2 years since.
>
>>I�ll find out.
>
>Most appreciated!
>
>>Fixed calipers, 4 pistons, two inner and two outer
>
>Best braking, easiest to adapt. more good news.
>
>>If you don�t have an official paper confirming the strength and stability,
>>nothing gets legalised here...
>>Testing, testing, testing, at least when going the VERY official way ;-)
>>under which circumstances do the adapters break etc.
>
>I guess it doesn't hurt to know what it takes to break an adapted rotor,
>but i won't have to do that here. whet they MAY do is take the van for 5
>immediately-consecutive crash-stops from 100kmh, to see if the braking is
>strong enough and fade-free. The present brakes won't pass that test. I'm
>surprised they didn't do the test when the 3.8 V6 was fitted by the PO,
>but perhaps that regulation only was drafted later.
>
>>that�s what they did on the photos. A new center with 5x112mm
>
>Was the center part of the kit, or did the owner have to have it custom-made?
>
>
>>Yes, both version have the bearings/hubs combined with the rotor. Even the
>>stubaxles are the same because old and newer vanagons use the same bearings.
>>>
>>> The South African (RSA) Caravelle has a different hub with a removable
>>> rotor. I believe the axle (spindle, stubaxle) is the same as the later
>>> German one.
>>
>>As far as I know, they are the same. But tno need to change because of the
>>vanagon�s age (same bearings as mentioned above)
>
>Good news.
>
>>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!). They may actually stock rotor centers to suit the CLK
>wheels, then.
>
>>I attached a few Oettinger rear bearing housings where the caliper mountings
>>are provided.
>
>The one time I tried to contact Oettinger (about their wasserboxer-6s) I
>received no reply.
>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 jpegs of the rear calipers and backingplate...are these Oettinger
>parts too? Any idea what they cost?
>
>Ben Tan looked at fitting the solid front rotors to the back, making an
>aluminum rotor carrier. Because of handbrake actuation he gave up this
>idea. I can get a complete bolt-on kit in Australia for about $330US, but
>it would be nice to have Porsche all round!
>
>>>So... I either need to:
>>> 1) machine rotors off my hubs and adapt Porsche rotors to modified hubs
>>> (will offest discs outward)
>>
>>Like our idea above. You could built an individual porsche rotor center to
>>get the offset right.
>
>This becomes a problem if I ever want to return the vehicle to stock for
>selling... but then, I'd also need an engine, trans...
>
>>So every adaptation, Porsche, oettinger, our own ones, are based on the same
>>idea.
>
>I guess it's the simplest easiest way.
>
>Well, many thanks for all this. You have answered even some questions I
>didn't know enough to ask, and clarified a lot!
>
>I will pass your message on to Ben Tan too, as he would like to know all
>this. Perhaps you ought to send it to the vanagon.com and subaruvanagon
>lists? This knowledge is not held by the US folks.
>
>Regards
>Andrew
>