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An upright motor in a T3??? By what you are describing in your message it sounds like you use the car on the track and not the street. Where do the tires rub? Since you said you raised your tranny I'm assuming you lowered the ride height, correct? So, your tires are probably rubbing on the top inside part of the fender (i.e. you can't fit a finger between the tire wall and the fender panel)? Thus you may have your ride lowered too much and/or you have wider than stock tires out back. Reduce the tire width by one size and see if that helps. Need more data. "...won't go on the whole way." -- does this mean the brake pads don't firmly press against the drum? If so, since the axles are shorter you probably need to shorten the e-brake cables since you'll now have more slack. If it's a hydraulic problem ya got me. If you mean that the drum itself won't attach to the hub I still don't know since I have composite drums (for now ;) and I can't see where there would be a problem -- I understand how non-composite drums could have a problem but there are others who are more knowledgeable than I. Disc brakes (in the rear I'm assuming?) should work but you'll be installing a kit or doing a custom job (I'm assuming you'd do a custom job). The kits I've seen generally cost too much for me and the less expensive ones don't have an emergency brake (stupiiiid!!). You don't want to use an inline brake lock on the hydraulic system to act as an e-brake. They are used only for short periods of time for drag racing to hold the vehicle. I have see two articles where Porsche 914 rear disc brakes have been used and that looks like the way I will eventually go (maybe use T3 calipers in the rear, haven't done enough R&D :) Parts are readily available for the 914s, including racing applications. It may have been less expensive to have had the fenders flared... Toby Erkson air_cooled_nut@pobox.com '72 VW Squareback 1.6L modified to 2.0L '75 Porsche 914 stock 1.8L ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re:stock window rubbers Author: type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE Date: 1/22/97 1:00 PM In a message dated 97-01-21 09:20:26 EST, you write: << type-3@umich.edu (type-3) >> Hello, I have been searching for stock T-3 window rubber for months now. I have a custom '65 squareback, just painted black, alloys, and needs those rubbers. If anyone knows please tell me! I have one more problem, I just raised my trans 3in. so the wheels dont butterfly, (bus nose cone and custom mounts) and then the tires started rubbing. I then put T-1 (shorter) axels and T-3 brakes&drums. And now my drums wont go on the whole way. Do I need to machine the drums? And is that safe? And will discs work in the future? By the way it has a 1955cc. upright motor with 48's.(90.5+76)I do a lot of hard starts ect. so it would have to be safe and strong. Thanks for anyones help!