Different take on brake upgrades

[Guest]

It's raining and I'm bored. I can't polish the car, so I'm thinking about upgrades...

I wonder if anyone thought about upgrading the brakes from the point of improving the clamping force.

My thinking is that I already upgraded the fronts and rears. The rears moved my pedal bite down a little. I'd like to get it back. I can lock all four wheels, but I'd like to make it happen with less force.

I thought initially about a 1" MC. Pretty simple to get hold of and not massively expensive. Of course this will mean that I have to press the brakes harder, so I was thinking that a servo upgrade, or better yet since I have a 96amp alternator, an electric servo replacement.

I wondered if anyone had done this, just to save me some time on the internet...

 

[LastDeadLast]

Alan,

I think we think alike. I was looking at the lastest 6-pack magazine which featured a modified TR6 that had a different master cylinder and servo on it. Unfortunately, the article did give much information on the owner (it gave his name but no email address) or on the brake mods for that matter. I'll see if I can dig the article out.

 

[Guest]

The Fall 2005 one?

I don't have that one yet - next few days I hope. I did the front brake article so I'm interested in how it came out.

 

[jerrybny]

Alan, raining here in the Poughkeepsie NY area so I am taping the drywall I put up in the garage bay that holds my TR6. what area of NY you from. Be great if we were close so that we could get together and tool around in our sixes.

 

[Guest]

I'm in Westchester. Perhaps we can arrange to meet up when the weather gets better and I get my car back from the shop.

The way things are going it will be in that order too...
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[LastDeadLast]

Alana,

The 6-pack edition is spring 2005. It's the "Big Red" on the cover. Let me know if you need this scanned and I'll be glad to do it.

 

[Guest]

I moved this over from the other thread for completeness:

I do have it.
The sidebar says where it's from - summitracing
Do a search for this part: DCC-5249271
Looking at the price no wonder he put it on. The servo still looks stock though to me - wonder how big his calf muscles are pushing that baby...

Edit: DCC-5249270 looks the same, but bore is closer to stock. I also reread the sidebar - he replaced the servo too, but I can't see one that looks right based on colour.

 

[LastDeadLast]

What about this? Summit racing again..

WIL-260-8555, They also have a number of universal brake boosters too.

 

[Guest]

I bet it's a bugger to fill. Looks like you could stop a tank with it though.