Crazy Rear Axle Idea

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Howdy,

I doubt this is an original idea (I think I read something about it in the Wilwood floater brake thread) but since I'm having to do a bunch of work to swap the rear axle in my '64 Riviera I thought I'd look into this idea with ya'll.

The axle is an 8.5in 31-spline 10-bolt out of a 91-93 Caprice since it comes with the 3.42:1 rear gears I want and is reasonably close in the axle width department to match up with the 18x8in wheels I plan on running. Since I need to change axles over to 5x4.75in vs the stock 5x5in and want to eliminate the C-clips I throught about doing a full floater with the stock flange and axle seal but with the axle sticking through and splined to mate to a C5/6 rear hub that fits on an adapter block that allows the mounting of the whole parking brake assembly and hub and contains the ears for whatever caliper I want to run (thinking 1st Gen CTS-V unit). I have 3/8-5/8in of room to play with per side in adding to the width of the axle so in my mind that would be enough to contain the adapter block and since the car is already pretty heavy, using steel doesn't bother me.



Thoughts?

Thanks,