VW Discs on Ford 37'/40' spindles?

VW discs on Ford 40’ spindles ?
In one hand I have Ford 40’ spindles and on the over I have VW bus hubs (70’/79’) for dics brakes. Is any one bad done this befor ? Must be a bearing and spacer story but dont want to spend time to find a solution if some have a good one who work on street. Super Bell had a VW brake kit but I dont know about it. Thanks for help.
Eric.

 

Super Bell's VW front disk kit used Type 3 components with disks that were redrilled for a Ford or Chevy bolt pattern. The VW Buses have a 5x112 bolt pattern. Not saying that no one has installed Bus disks on early Ford spindles, but I've never heard of it.

 

There is some info in the Tech archive,in the big long brake article

 

Here's the link to that article.

And here's the quote about the VW disks.

"Hamilton Automotive Industries offers a disc brake kit that will fit 49-'54 Chevy hubs, early Ford hubs, and '65 or newer Corvair hubs. This kit uses the '69 and newer VW discs and calipers. Curt prefers the Meehanite VW disc over the steel discs because steel has a tendency to gum and has a higher expansion coefficient. The VW disc, when drilled for the Chevy bolt pattern, will bolt straight on the Chevy hub. Early Ford hubs must have the drum flange turned to diameter so it swill fit inside the VW disc and no more than a 5-inch lug pattern can be drilled. Curt Hamilton figures that by the time this story is published, he will have the 5-1/2-inch pattern available on the early Ford hub, He also offers a large Volvo disc to early Ford hub kit that requires the same machine work.

The disc and calipers are from '69 and newer VW 1500, 1600, 1302, and 13025. He has a kit of new parts which include rotors, number 3 calipers, machined early Ford hubs on exchange, other hubs outright if desired, caliper brackets, fasteners and a handful of shims to adjust the caliper position. His used parts kit consists of the same pieces except it has number 2 calipers. Number 3 calipers have larger pucks than the 2s and a wider racket hole spacing to accommodate the larger puck. The late model number 3 calipers will handle up to about 2800 pounds vehicle weight. All the rotors are the same and are a solid disc. The brake units will clear 13-inch custom aluminum rims. Curt will supply machining instructions for this conversion but there is a whole bunch of trick machine work that doesn't make it worthwhile to do it yourself. He does offer any lug pattern change on whatever hub you wish except 5-1 /2-inch on Chevy hubs. As a matter of fact, he will adapt any hub/spindle combination that you might have to the VW disc."

The disks that he is refering to are not Bus disks however, they are StupidBeetle, Ghia and Type 3.