Buddy's 70
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- Jun 15, 2008
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- 64
beautiful looking work at least....have u put many miles on it since the install? hi speed stopping, trailing etc???, for a guy who lacks space under the hood, I would consider it....
Actually I have put on about 150 miles of just in town driving(and another 100 or so miles on the freeway),testing out the system and it works great. I also have put another 400+ miles(according to my gps) in the mountains on real 4wd trails that included mud,snow,and rocks that are about the size of 35" tires(thats good size rocks for around here)and pretty steep angles going both up and down and everything worked great without any flaws.As for the "slop" in the linkages,the brake rod thru the firewall has an adjustment that takes out any of that,as a matter of fact it has less now than before when it was manual brakes.The shaft isnt attached to the actual boost,but it is all attached to the same firewall and those"pillow block bearings" are actually 5/8" heim joints with grade 8 washers. The bracket is made up of 3/16" and 1/4" material and grade 8 bolts. The pin going into the boost is a shortened factory pin that came on the boost.My boost set-up came off an astro van and the mc is 1 1/4" so my pedal is firm and not real soft. As stated by others it doesnt take much pressure on the pedal to stop the vehicle.I also upgraded the front calipers to the thunderbird calipers. This system has worked great in all different stopping scenarios that i have tried,I even sent a friend of mine into the windshield(he didnt think it would stop that fast and we were only doing about 30mph).