Early VW based drum brakes

Fritter · Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 7:14 pm Post subject: Early VW based drum brakes

Recently I found 2 rear 356 drums and backing plates.

The drums are VW cast iron drums with aluminum fins cast around the edges.

The backing plates have "square" 4 bolt mount slave cylinders on top, star wheel double adjusters on bottom, and the middle 4 holes that mount to the axle tube are "open", meaning, the holes are not O shaped but they are U shaped with one open side.

I'm still cleaning them up, so I will get pics soon. But in the meantime, anyone know exactly what year these are?

Real early 356 drum info is pretty hard to find.
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356Power · Posted: Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:58 pm Post subject:

Nice find! Those brakes where used from 1950(ish) to later 1952 when Porsche finally developed their own aluminum drum and components.

Fritter · Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:49 am Post subject:

The drums look just like this. I don't have a pic of the backing plates yet.

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Richard Roth · Samba Member Joined: April 03, 2004 Posts: 952

There are at least two companies that I know of that sell the aluminum rings to be pressed on VW drums for reproductions.
Not sure how to tell originals from reproductions.

For example:
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1188299
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Fritter · Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2013 2:55 pm Post subject:

drscope · Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:58 am Post subject:

I was reading the article in an old Pano the other day about Porsche #1. It was upgraded from cables to juice brakes and then latter the brakes were upgraded again to larger brakes.

The article didn’t mention anything about what was done with the take offs. But its nice to dream that maybe you stumbled upon something special!
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Fritter · Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:02 am Post subject:

I'll post the Ebay ad number here when I put them up this weekend. I'm going to start the bidding low, so it might be an interesting auction. I have no idea what these things are worth.
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bbspdstr · Samba Member Joined: May 11, 2012 Posts: 494 Location: PA

Rare. I have been around 356s 'a little' for about 50 years and know of only 2 times I've seen those drums on a transaxle. The first was on a crash-box in the early '70s and the second.....no, I take that back....I was going to say they were on a trans with a '51 I sold to Dr. Brett Johnson....but now I'm not so sure...yep, rare brakes. I'm looking forward to auction reports.... Cool

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Fritter · Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:55 pm Post subject:

Now listed on Ebay....item 160991344382

http://www.ebay.com/itm/160991344382?item=160991344382&viewitem=&vxp=mtr
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ento · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: Early VW based drum brakes

I have a set of those as well. the guy I got them off of said they are porsche but how do I tell?
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dsrtfox · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 8:21 am Post subject: Re: Early VW based drum brakes

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