Good/Bad Idea? Cable Clutch to Hydraulic Master Cylinder?

[Warhawk]

Hello - I'll start off by saying (which may be/become obvious) that I'm not a mechanic, but a bit of a driveway tinkerer. Please be kind! Actually nevermind, let the banter commence.

How much of a misery would it be, if I had a car with a cable clutch, to fit a hydraulic gearbox and master cylinder, say, somewhere near the battery (or relocate the battery) and have the cable pull either a pivot to activate the master cylinder, or even find a pull-type master cylinder and then use that for the clutch?

Is this do-able/barely do-able/insanity?

Bracing myself for all opinions! Thanks for any and everything.

[Martin350]

Out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?

To me it sounds like taking something very simple and making it quite complicated!

[AW10]

Sounds like a lot of aggro - what's the root problem you're trying to solve?

[Mr2Mike]

I'd agree with the above. I much prefer a hydraulically actuated clutch to cables, but in your case you'd be retaining the cable which makes this a bit pointless. If there no way to mount a master cylinder so it's operated from from the clutch pedal with a push rod?

[Warhawk]

Thanks all! No, not really any other way around it and yes I imagine it's pretty much gaining the worst of both worlds.

Full story is I'm pondering converting a Vauxhall Calibra to hydraulic clutch.

Cheers for the replies.

[AW10]

Warhawk said:

I'm pondering converting a Vauxhall Calibra to hydraulic clutch.

Why?

[Peanut Gallery]

Not cheap, but you can buy a hydraulic clutch pedal.

Fist single one I found an image of http://www.retrofication.co.uk/hydrobox.html

I can see why you are thinking of doing it, but I think you are best off sticking to either cable or hydraulic.

[PaulKemp]

I know someone who had an all hydraulic pedal box and a cable gearbox, he used a simple slave cylinder to lever then a short cable
I too thought it better to go all hydraulic or cable not do a hybrid but that said it work fine