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Old May 19, 2010 | 02:58 PM
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Default street driving manual brakes

have a wilwood booster less setup with the 3/4 master cyl.


running the stock proportion valve, and 3an stainless brake lines.


just wondering how sketchy its gunna be to stop in a hurry, anyone with expierence?
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Old May 19, 2010 | 05:50 PM
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dont have any exp with this but i tried driving a vette witout one and **** that dude. keep it wit a booster
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Old May 19, 2010 | 06:59 PM
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Default Re: street driving manual brakes

thats also a lot heavier a car, with shitty drum brakes.


i know spfwd cars that stop from 160 on just manual front brakes, no back brakes at all.

the parts are already installed i just wanna know what to expect before i drive it.
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Old May 20, 2010 | 10:56 AM
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Default Re: street driving manual brakes

long drives your leg will get tired at first may not seem bad right away but if you gotta go through traffic it becomes a work out
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Old May 21, 2010 | 10:50 AM
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Default Re: street driving manual brakes

Originally Posted by slammedobd1teg
thats also a lot heavier a car, with shitty drum brakes.


i know spfwd cars that stop from 160 on just manual front brakes, no back brakes at all.

the parts are already installed i just wanna know what to expect before i drive it.
idk wtf ur talking about with drum brakes dude. but have u ever driven a corvette? they dont have drum brakes unless ur in what the 50s. and they arent that heavy man there made of fiberglass and that new **** now. and uve seen a race car do this cool, but u arent trying to be a race car are u. since u already did it and it really doesnt matter. Y dont u drive it and tell us
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Old May 21, 2010 | 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by 94VTEC2TONE
idk wtf ur talking about with drum brakes dude. but have u ever driven a corvette? they dont have drum brakes unless ur in what the 50s. and they arent that heavy man there made of fiberglass and that new **** now. and uve seen a race car do this cool, but u arent trying to be a race car are u. since u already did it and it really doesnt matter. Y dont u drive it and tell us


im not trying to be anything you dumb ****, there was a problem with the old master and booster, so we put a wilwood kit in it.


instead of taking your time out to type what you did, which was in no means useful to me, you should have just hit the back button and kept ur mouth shut.

and it was a 63 btw which have manual drum brakes, and they are a lot heavier then a civic.
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Old May 28, 2010 | 12:31 PM
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With the 3/4 master it will be fine. If you just disconnect the booster then yes its a hard pedal because its a much bigger master, but with the smaller one, the pedal will be much lighter with slightly longer travel.

All in all its not a bad setup, if it was prorace teams would use a power brakes instead of manual setups.
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Old May 29, 2010 | 07:15 AM
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what are the advantages of manual brakes? is it just the look for the most part?

when i was in the market for new brake master and booster i thought about going manual... but i just could'nt get myself to give up having a booster
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Old May 29, 2010 | 07:38 AM
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I dont unerstand the point of this post?If we tell you its going to suck are you going to remove them and go back to a booster setup I mean you stated they are already on the car so just drive it and find out if you like it.I think you are looking for someones approval on the brake setup so here we go its cool man.
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