4 pot brakes what servo?

[turbojolt]

what servo do/have you used when running 4 pot brakes?


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[pie]

well im running a standard 2.0 cav one for my 4 pots

they work well tbh really good infact lol

[turbojolt]

can you fit a 2ltr servo straight onto a nova?

[Andy]

can you fit a 2ltr servo straight onto a nova?
A mate of mine had an astra gte servo AND master fitted iirc

[mowgli]

as long as its set up correctly, as in the correct piston sizes, the std one would be fine.. but if you were going to the bother of 4 pot fronts, find a bias pedal box, then your brakes are infinitely adjustable to how you want them

[turbojolt]

what piston size would not have a negative effect on the feel of the brakes mate?

[bazil]

as long as its set up correctly, as in the correct piston sizes, the std one would be fine.. but if you were going to the bother of 4 pot fronts, find a bias pedal box, then your brakes are infinitely adjustable to how you want them

To fit a pedal box is not a 5 min job as I'm sure you aware,

Removing the servo also can make the brakes extremely hard to operate if not set up correctly also reworking of all the brake lines to fit the pedal box will also be required. Then you also have cylinder size to choose from,

I ran 0.7 rear and 0.625 for the front

[Will F]

GTE servo will be fine.

[blue_peg_16v]

I run a Gsi servo with mine and there fine

[turbojolt]

I run a Gsi servo with mine and there fine

what brakes are they mate?

[Stuart]

With big pot calipers you need fluid flow and pressure, oem stuff wil flow shag all but at decent pressure. Hence long pedal travel.

As I said in my brakes article the servo is NLT of use if you can't physically press the pedal without it lol.

In an ideal world you'd have a 1mm piston with massive travel that is mechanically linked to make the pedal travel sensible. In reality you will have to find a middle ground, so a massive mc and then restrict the front outputs :)

[Benn]

I run Wilwood midi light 4pots, using a gsi/gte servo.

[mowgli]

I run Wilwood midi light 4pots, using a gsi/gte servo.

the gsi/gte has the exact same size m/c as the rest of the range, but with a slightly larger diameter servo.

[Benn]

Yeah that's why i got it, wanted the bigger servo for when i had 288/284 brakes...

[Stuart]

I'll say it again, a bigger servo won't stop you any faster.

[swedge]

But gives you slightly better pedal feel?

[Stuart]

But gives you slightly better pedal feel?

It makes it easier to press, that's all.
No better feel persay other than making you think that an inch of travel giving lock up is better brakes (extreme example)

[turbojolt]

so just use the std servo and get use to how the pedel feels then?

[Stuart]

No, keep the std servo and fit a correctly sized master cylinder.

[turbojolt]

how do you work out what size master cylinder would be needed?

[Stuart]

Google and maths

[blue_peg_16v]

what brakes are they mate?

Willwood dynalite 2s 280mm discs