Pedal Boxes

[Bluerex]

Planning on replacing the push-me-pull-you LHD to RHD brake conversion (more levers, bearings and rods than I care to mention) with 2 non-boosted master cylinders on the fire wall located (wait for it...) IN FRONT OF THE DRIVER (gasp! what a suggestion)
Anyone care to share experience or suggestions?

C

[Golf Loon]

Why no booster?
Look at your cordoba. The booster is behind the pedal and sunk into the bulkhead. I reckon you`d need to do some cutting to go down this road. And not use the original MC, as it is too bulky.

[Golfwise]

Pedal boxes

I read in one of the English mags where someone makes and sells them.I'll have to go to the dunny and get out some old copies and try and find it.

[Bluerex]

Why no booster? Try this one youself ON A DESERTED, STRAIGHT bit of road... it's called Left Foot Braking. With your right hoof firmly planted, modulate you speed with the left. You will notice that in no time your booster stops boosting (no chance for the vacum to replenish) and your pedal turns to stone. So it is better to start out without a booster rather than try to guess how much boost is left in the tank. Simple huh

C

[Golf Loon]

Ok, if you have a strong left foot and you are on a racetrack. I prefer an easy life sometimes and golf brakes need all the help they can get!

[Bluerex]

Many thanks to all, just as a reminder I am building a competition rally car, street handling (brakes, steering, noise - just wait for the barking webber thread) are secondary considerations.

Charles.

[roccodingo]

Re: Pedal Boxes

Planning on replacing the push-me-pull-you LHD to RHD brake conversion (more levers, bearings and rods than I care to mention) with 2 non-boosted master cylinders on the fire wall located (wait for it...) IN FRONT OF THE DRIVER (gasp! what a suggestion)
Anyone care to share experience or suggestions?

C

Think your looking for the Autocavan pedalbox.... not seen one for many years..and from memory Autocavan is no longer operating. maybe E bay .co .uk could be a good place to start or club GTi ...

Its definately a good idea, good luck. I saw a post on PVW forums about a caddy owner who had retrofitted a whole Mk3 firewall over to his caddy, with all the RHD brake stuff etc...

[Bluerex]

WoW The entire firewall!!!
And I thought a floor transplant was stretching things

C

[Golfwise]

Pedal boxes

This is getting too difficult I would keep it simple and stick with the original.Its a known formula.Mk2 booster,22 ml mc etc.I'd clean,lubricate and adjust the linkages and get the rest of the brakes working .
They ain't that bad.
Late Sth African Mk1s had a twist linkage which are the ducks they say, if you can get one.

[Golf Loon]

Saab 900s have a rolling beam arrangement, which could be modified.

How about a hydraulic pedal going over to a booster by way of a line. Late mode subarus and others have such a setup.

[20v kit car]

smart move bluerex,will suit the new driving style..start dancing the pedals..its fun cheers steve

[black betty]

i am pretty sure that a(now defunct?) uk company called autocavan used to do a biased twin master cyliner set up like described by bluerex/ golfwise

i would be interested in one too and have done some searching of the clubgti forum on this topic but with no luck

i seem to recollect that there were instructions on how to make one up/ how to adjust the brake bias were floating around the internet as i think a few people were using this set up on track day monsters

i d be interested to see if anyone has any more success getting details of this

bb

[syncro]

I think that Mark Hammond from Hammond Automotive (Brookvale) had one for sale a while back.

[finemk1]

i have just beeen to a wreker to find a shnew shock for my charade!!!! when i saw a striped laser sitting out the front not sure which model but it had the booster in front of the driver and a really short MC, had a look at the linkages,,,,, should work he wanted way to much for it so i might go back tonight and steal it, WAAAAAAAHAHAHAH or ill go back to morrow and suss it out properly, ie take my set up in and match it up. let u know how it goes

[VanKronenburg]

Re: Pedal Boxes

Planning on replacing the push-me-pull-you LHD to RHD brake conversion (more levers, bearings and rods than I care to mention) with 2 non-boosted master cylinders on the fire wall located (wait for it...) IN FRONT OF THE DRIVER (gasp! what a suggestion)
Anyone care to share experience or suggestions?

C

This is not a worth while modification at all and is overly priced. It offers very little performance advantage. It is more popular on show cars in Europe as it 'simplifies' the engine bay layout. We have built many Golf 1s, some with over 400ps and have used the Golf 2 G60 master cylinder setup on them all. This is the way to go and is easy to fit