Re: Brake issues
Be careful when you mix or match hydraulic parts.If you substitute larger rear wheel cylinders for your standard units, you increase the surface area on the wheel cylinder pistons,thereby increasing the application pressure to the rear shoes. This could have the effect of causing the rear wheels to lock up easier at the finish line(not nice,especially if the track has rules about excessive braking),and it could result in a real scary situation. If you increase the size of the fronts and not the rears, it would possibly make it harder to hold the car on the line without sliding through.Also, manual brakes have a smaller bore master cylinder that do most power brake master cylinders. We did a master cylinder replacement on an early 70's Dodge van one time and wound up with a van that would just about put you through the windshield when you went to stop because the brakes applied so hard. Come to find out,the parts store sent us a manual master cylinder instead of the power unit. Now, we all know, parts stores never send out the wrong part, do they?
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