Brake advice

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aprisa

Original Poster:

1,812 posts

259 months

Thursday 28th November 2002
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Need a little guidance here,
I'm thinking of ditching the advised Caliper setup on my Phantom which is - Rover 400 43mm slider calipers using the original servo, original 827 back setup.
Replace with 4 pot AP calipers on floating discs with a balance bar front/rear twin master setup.
Do I need to keep the servo or would I lose feel? would this system be totally over the top and a waste of money (+/- £1500)?
Cheers Nick

aprisa

Original Poster:

1,812 posts

259 months

Monday 2nd December 2002
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Thanks for that chaps, I will stick with the original and maybe swap to a front/rear balance bar master cylinder setup from Demon tweeks so that if the fronts are still too powerful (as Norman from Phantom reckons they are) then this should sort it.
Cheers Nick

aprisa

Original Poster:

1,812 posts

259 months

Thursday 5th December 2002
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I now have the Balance bar setup and its looks very well made.
One query though, the balance bar itself will be transferring the servo load to the Master cylinders under a "Shear" force as it starts at 90 degres to the cylinder pushrods. Will this be reliable long term? given that usually all brake parts are taking the load in compression/tension.
Anyone done a few thousand miles with one fitted?
Nick