CLASS RACER FORUM - Folk Race cars foot brake switch

Peter:
I have photos of the installation on my phone and I'm sure there is a way to get them on here but I don't know how. But if your cell can receive them, then I can forward them to you. Just PM me the number if you don't want to post it. I spoke to the Folks at the Indy divisional about it and they were very informative and showed it installed on their stocker. Nice people to deal with. It looks to be an industrial quality switch that's 4 1/2 L x 1 1/8 Dia. There is a collar in the center that slides to allow access to the adjusting device which is a slotted cylinder that requires a small screwdriver to turn.The end that has the wires is threaded 1/2 male pipe and the other end is 1/4 pipe. You have to figure out a way to mount as it doesn't have any provisions. I had an aluminum 1/2 pipe coupling that I screwed on the one end and welded a piece of angle aluminum to it. You could use steel instead. I used a 1/4 female to 1/8 female pipe reducer on the other end and a 1/8 to 3/16 inverted flare adapter to run the line to an un-used port of the line loc. It's a two wire hook-up with instructions included. My customer's car had a toggle switch that wasn't being used so I wired it so if he didn't want to use it he could completely de-activate there. The instructions say to mount a normally open switch on the shifter so it de-activates in 3rd gear. This car had a Turbo Action shifter with an automatic 1-2 shift and leaves the line with the shifter in the 2nd gear position so it was easier to mount a normally open switch on the shifter so the 2-step is activated when it's in 2nd and de-activated when in 3rd. His car has a brake pressure gaugebut I didn't want him to have to look at it and take his eye off the tree so I mounted an indicator light on the top of the dash straight in line with the driver's view that comes on at the set pressure . He can see it from either lane with his peripheral vision and know when he has the brake pressure activated. When doing a burn-out, you just press hard enough to turn the indicator light on the back off a little to turn it off , set the line-loc and you won't have the rev-limiter on during your burn-out. This car has dual calipers on the rear and it seemed to hold good at 800lbs of pressure in my drive. I'm sure you could buy a cheaper switch but I think it is worth the price $169.99 + shipping. Hope this helps. Danny