FVD rear brake adapter kit?
 

I have been looking around the web for info on swapping over base 986 rears to S rears. This kit allows the fitment of S model brake shoes correct? What is required to make this kit work? S model calipers, rotors, pads, emergency brake shoes? Are any other ebrake parts required other then shoes? I noticed what looks like a large backing plate shim, and two other smaller square pieces I haven’t figured out yet. From other posts on the forum I am starting to think that the small square piece are to shim the originally base caliper to use with the larger diameter S model rotor. The rotor for the S model is wider so I’m not seeing how this is possible unless you get S model calipers or use thinner brake pads.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

1) Since I am too lazy to google FVD, a Link would be helpful

2) Brake disks use PADS.. Brake drums use Shoes ;)

3) You don't mention why you want S brakes on the rear. The fronts do about 80% of your stopping. Are you tracking/racing the car? Just want the "looks" of an S?

4) I would imagine that yes, shims and other methods to get the spacing correct would be required to get the rotor/calipers to line up correctly.

Fully aware that discs don’t use shoes, but the ebrake uses a shoe style system that rides on the inside of the rotor hat. I was mainly concerned about which components were necessary to pull it off. It looks like all 996/986s shoes, springs and adjusters will be needed since the inner part of the disc (ebrake drum) is a larger diameter. I still don’t see how you can simply shim the caliper bolts/mounts and make a non S caliper work. Is there enough room in between the base models pistons to add that additional width of rotor and still get in pads? I see how the shims will raise the caliper to make it fit diameter wise.

Here is the link

forgot to add- I don’t care about looks. The fronts are being substantially increased and so changing the rears, even if only by a little, is the very least I would consider doing.

Thanks for the link.. sadly, I am not sure what I am looking at in the link. To me I see what I think are spacers. I would imagine you WOULD need Box S rotors and calipers. I don't believe you can drop spacers into the regular calipers to "widen them". In the old days, the calipers were a two pice but nowadays they are "monoblock" for increased strength.

Upgrading a Porsche is never cheap and no doubt, its part of the what, $15K price difference between an S and a Non-S.. all the little things you wouldn't think that were changed, but were.

I'm curious to hear about your entire braking component upgrade and why you are doing it! thanks.