This sounds silly but I want my engine bay as clean and simple as possible. I already have a full wire tuck and the coils are inside so my next project was to get rid of the large booster portion of the master cylinder.

I removed the master cylinder + booster and then unbolted the booster from the master cylinder..... simple

next made a plate from steel to cover the existing hole..... this is not needed but it looks nice.

The booster bolts to the firewall with 4 bolts and the master cylinder has 2, It works out perfectly that the top two bolts holes for the booster are the same distance apart as the 2 bolts on the master cylinder. So this means no drilling of holes at all.

Also using these top two holes moves the fulcrum of the pedal up 3 cm.....
This which will decrease pedal effort, which is desireable since you are removing the booster

I removed the pedal to drill a new hole, and made a new adjustable rod between the pedal and cylinder, with a bolt, a file, and a drill press used as a lathe ........ looks factory

You have to trim just a very littile bit on the firewall with a die grinder for the the new rod to fit correctly.....

Put everything together and made some new brake lines..... simple simple
I spliced the new line for the rear into the existing line in the middle under the car

Everything all together maybe took 2.5 hrs...

I didnt think it would clear up as much room as it did, i love the openess of that corner now

Brake feel is very different as it is much more progressive and lockup is alot more predictable...... YES i can still lock all 4 corners without effort

Tinner gave me this idea, so thanks to him

Here is a pic of what it looks like with the booster gone... i didnt take a pic once the lines were done, but they are just as simple and look great



and here is a pic of what was removed, 5-10lbs



zac

 

Wow, you can take that out? I had no clue.

So does it feel like you have the car off when you're breaking?

Definately looks very clean. Nice job.

 

Damn, nice!

 

ive been lovin your car for some time now... but this tops it! im going to do some wire tucking and and what-not, but im still going to keep my p/s and anti-lock, even though these cars look AMAZING with just the painted block and nice shiney turbo... -

 

you should put a full bay pic up btw...

 

What kind of master cyl. is the smaller one?

 

The clutch master cylinder

 

oh...