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Old Jul 25, 2004 | 10:15 PM
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Question for people with poor manifold vacuum

... such as half bridge/full bridge/peripheral ported engines.

What if anything did you do for the power brakes? Add a vacuum can, left it alone, ...?
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Old Jul 25, 2004 | 10:40 PM
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... such as half bridge/full bridge/peripheral ported engines.

What if anything did you do for the power brakes? Add a vacuum can, left it alone, ...?
My dads v-8 had a very radical cam, and produced little vacuum. He had the same problems with the brakes, he would have to throw in neutral and give it gas to get the brakes to work. A can "helped" but didnt solve the problem the way he wanted. Ive heard of electronic vacuum pumps, may want to look into those.
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Old Jul 26, 2004 | 03:30 AM
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Peejay :I`am not having trouble with vacuum at all?

They work fine,even @ idle (which is 1900 rpms) for my car
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Old Jul 26, 2004 | 08:27 PM
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Sounds the good.

I didn't notice any problems with my street port (I never did find out what my idle vacuum was), but obviously the GOOD ports have even less manifold vacuum and I'm worried about that, ever since driving a few customers cars that had basically no power brakes and they had relatively good vacuum (8-10") compared to what I'm considering...
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 05:27 AM
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Ok,thats strange..
I have driven with ,in a MFR PP engined 323 before,and there wasnt any problems.did the people retain the stock vacuum point for the booster ?
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Old Jul 27, 2004 | 09:29 AM
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engine brake a lot, it builds vaccum
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