The
front brakes do most of the work---no doubt about
it. Never the less, there are real gains to be made
with a rear brake upgrade. The car really stops
faster and more consistently with bigger rear drums
and shoes. The factory showed us how to do this
when they put 20mm larger diameter drums and shoes
on the Factory Turbo. Then the factory made our
upgrade job really easy by making the 320 rear brakes
bolt right up to the 2002 hub. You just take off
the old drum, remove the hub for access, and remove
the old shoes and backing plates along with the
handbrake cables. Next, bolt on the 320i backing
plates, install the new shoes, cylinders, and cables,
put on the larger drums, and adjust the shoes. Adjusting
the handbrake cables is done after shortening the
cable tubes in the drive shaft tunnel by an inch
on each side. Be sure to retighten the hub-nut as
tight as you can after reassembling the drive flange---Really
tight. Tighter than that.
Our kit includes: Good used backing plates, shoe
attachment hardware, and drums. New shoes, new wheel
cylinders, new handbrake cables.
