been looking at what i can do with zero cost
first off i chucked a seat in the car as far back as i will be able to mount it when the cage is in. with a much lower and further back than std position clearly the pedals were too long and in the wrong position.
here a pic of the master cylinders, scarily the brake one is two welded togther that was never going to stay, i used to have an engine bay mounted bias box, but the makes access to the the rear exhaust branches very tight so i decided to have the brake masters inside the car instead.
the oe clutch master isnt so much in the way, but does pick up a lot of exhaust heat, so i decide to cockpit mount that too, it also means i can use a universal master
i offered up the pedal box i never fitted to the e30, teh shorter 02 floor pan just didnt allow room for it. then i got to thinking about modifying the oe pedal box. thinking about pedal leverages it finally dawned on me perhaps why i was never truly happy with the e30 brakes, the e30 had same size cylinders as the old 02 and initially the same brakes, but they never felt anything like as good in the e30, which i put down to weight, but despite upgrading lieterally every aspect of the e30 brakes a couple of times i could never get the feel i wanted, thats not to say it didnt stop, it did and well, it just never felt the same, the one difference between the e30 and 02 was the pedal boxes, the 02 had an 02 box the e30 had an escort one, which has 25% less leverage.
first off i chopped the pedals to get them in the right place, i did them one at a time
then i cannibalized the floor mounted pedal box so i could adapt the oe pedal box to take a reversed above pedal pivot clutch master. it took a couple of attempts to get the it right so the master push rod didnt bind on the body but so far so good, brake masters next
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