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compact & lightweight power brakes?
« on: February 17, 2006, 02:44:28 PM »

what have you seen used as a compact and lightweight option for power brakes? duster
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2006, 03:27:08 PM »

Uhh, manual brakes....
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2006, 03:31:51 PM »

 hammer lol LOL
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2006, 03:31:54 PM »

I've seen/heard of people using geo metro brake boosters on muscle cars, they supposedly work quite well and they're very small.

http://www.joesfalcon.com/sped1/pwrbrake.html
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2006, 04:16:29 PM »

I swapped the Demon over to modern Mopar aluminum master cylinder.  It's really light weight and semi compact.  I am running non power though.  I saw something called Hydroboost or something like that in a street rod mag a while back that was really small and worked like a booster between the master cylinder and the fire wall.
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2006, 04:36:29 PM »

Hydroboost is powered by the power steering pump. Usually see it on heavy pickup truck and diesel engines.
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2006, 03:46:10 PM »

Uhh, manual brakes....

you came up with that all by yourself?  Grin
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Re: compact & lightweight power brakes?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2006, 03:51:32 PM »

Hydroboost is powered by the power steering pump. Usually see it on heavy pickup truck and diesel engines.

i thought i had seen a racecar version constructed of aluminum and was curious if anyone knew of the company or a source for them.

i think i might rework the position of the mastercylinder on the pedal to lower the pedal effort a little. Wink
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