Domestic source for brake shoes?

[taylor2800]

Need to source shoes, wheel cylinder, and drum for a 2800cs. Anyone have a good (economical) source here in the US?

 

[sebring222]

I can recommend Automotive Friction in Damascus, Oregon for your brake shoes. Send them your old units and they will re-line them with your choice of material. The phone is 503-353-7595. I have used them for years with excellent results.

Jim D
New Orleans

 

[Bill Riblett]

Shoes and, I think, wheel cylinders are the same as E21 320i's and should not be hard to find.

Drums are NLA. Maybe you could get a machine shop to redrill E21 drums? I know people redrill wheels to change from 4-lug to 5-lug.

In the long run, it may be cheaper to find used 3.0CS rear swing arms and swap to rear disks.

I think the first thing you should do is check with Carl Nelson at Lajolla Independent:
http://www.bimmerdoc.com/
Also Mesa Performance: http://mesaperformance.com/fonelist.html

Between those two shops, someone should be able to tell you if anything new works.

 

[JohnHein]

Is the swap out from drums to discs on the 2800Cs with a 3.0 swing arms a simple one? Are all the hydraulics compatible, etc?

Thanks for the sources.

 

['69 2800cs]

My experience was this stuff was hard to find and not compatible with any other models, except for the E12 520i, which I don't think we ever got here.

I ended up re-using my shoes, they were still serviceable. The cylinders I bought new, even though I only needed one.

If you'd like it I'd ship the extra cylinder I have for $80.

http://www.e9coupe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5588&highlight=cylinder