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Old 28th January 2014, 08:52
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Originally Posted by Cammy View Post
Morris,

Craig (McRamsay) is going to go without a servo altogether and I would be interested to see what the forum readers think about that option - especially with a 2.8 ltr engine squeezed into the engine bay?

Cammy
The car only weighs about 800kg so I guess it's doable. Would definitely need pads made of a different compound though as the standard BMW ones would be far too hard for servo-less operation - even with a very strong right leg. Would probably also need the pedal box strengthening as the standard one already flexes far to much without the extra forces associated with non-servo operation (ie you have to push harder)

The original brake setup - with a Metro servo - was pretty useless with standard brake pads. As I recall the Metro servo only has a boost of about 1.5. (The BMW one is 5 if I recall correctly). The dual-diaphram servo that many of us adopted later was a great improvement.

Robin
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