Kit car motorcycle engine hydraulic clutch actuation

Kit car motorcycle engine hydraulic clutch actuation

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Philip-tls7l

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3 months

Thursday 25th January
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Hi all. I am building a kit car with a Suzuki bandit engine which has cable clutch actuation. Its a rear engine placement, so I want to convert the clutch to hydraulic with a slave cylinder.

Anyone have experience of this? And advice of where to get a kit of parts?
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generationx

6,748 posts

105 months

Thursday 25th January
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The important thing is to match the amount of actuating fluid required by the slave cylinder to the volume moved by the master cylinder. You can work out the volume by the area of the slave cylinder piston and its stroke, then match that to the same volume moved by the master cylinder in its stroke. So a slave cylinder requiring, for example, 50ml of fluid to achieve the full stroke needs a master cylinder that can pump a similar amount on one stroke. AP can normally provide technical data for example.