So listen to this... please give me suggestions/input. Cliff notes at end.

First time in a long time, I was able to take my car out for more than just a quick scant around town. My friends and I were driving on the highway, going to take pictures of our whips.

I was going about.... 50mph, and pushed it to like 65/70. I shifted gears and noticed my boost gauge sitting on zero (zero boost, zero vac). I thought mypedal was stuck to the floor or something, but NO.

I noticed I had NO BRAKES! None at all, and when I tried to use the E brake, ti did little since my car was revving to like 4k, sitting on zero boost.

SOOOOO long story short, after avoiding several cars, taking an exit ramp too quickly, almost smashing another car.... I finally coasted to a stop.

The nipple for the brake booster had popped off the manifold, leaving my brake booster with nothing. I was rendered useless.

So as soon as I have time, I will go in and tap every focking port on that manifold, using pipe threads and earls pieces. I dont trust this anymore.

What should I do?


Cliff notes: Brake booster barb popped off manifold, leaving me with no brakes and almost hitting everyone.

 

well at least you didnt hurt yourself or others

 

SCARY!!

 

wow

 

yeh....



anyone else run into this?

 

oh ****, i run this mani. *******! Lawsuit....if accident had occured. Let me knoow how it comes out. (calling them that is)

 

Did you check your shorts afterwards?

 

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I wanna know too.

 

hell, i pooped my pants i was just reading this thread!

 

**** you got me paranoid now

 

Don't over react you lost your assist not your brakes. Just use a little muscle and it will still stop the same. Remember cars didn't always have power brakes.

 

invest in some zip-ties...

 

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thats true, the brakes are working 100%, just need more power to press the pedal. Well, it is a race part and there is no warranty on this stuff, good luck.

 

insane...atleast youre alright and didnt hurt yourself or anyone else.

 

Same thing happed to my friends N/A car. Was tracing down a weird idel when low and behold I touched the brake vacume line and it moved, the nipple. The only thing holding it on was the vacume created by the motor. Globbed some JB weld on it, shoved it back in, and to this day, you could pull the motor out by the nipple, it worked that good.

 

I'd say just jb weld it back on. You should have been able to stop w/o the assist. It's like if you have your car on a hill turned off, you can still stop it with the brakes.

 

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thats true, the brakes are working 100%, just need more power to press the pedal. Well, it is a race part and there is no warranty on this stuff, good luck.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I agree. Just put a little more *** into it next time I've lost my brakes before and its some seriously scary stuff but it can be handled.

 

hehe, what should Ferrari Testarossa drivers say? This car comes w/o brake booster from the factory.

 

True true... the brakes were a little hard to stop... actually very hard. I know its a race part and there is no warranty, so I dont stand too much of a chance- just wondering if you had any ideas.

Im just going to tap the port with a pipe thread, and while Im in there Ima tap a few more so I dont need to run countless tee's.

thanks-

 

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hell im pooping them right now!

 

This will not happen with an Edelbrock intake manifold, all screw-in plugs. Brass fittings that also are the correct metric sizes.

 

Edelbrock Victor X

JB weld is probably worse than what Skunk did....JB weld = ghetto fix

Must be why people say to the Victor X for boosted engines

 

men thats scary...I would of been scared to ***** if this happened...good thing your okay and your car too.

 

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Victor X is good for higher boost apps, skunk2 is fine you wont lose the low end like on the victor X. that sucks that that happened. i run that mani too

 

yeh I just tapped some more ports in the mani, ima run some nice fittings on there now.. ill get some pics when im done