Progressing with the Wilwood pedalbox

ByToadster April 28, 2020September 14, 2026

This update covers Progressing with the Wilwood pedalbox.

Related notes live on the Factory Five Cobra build hub.

About the Progressing with the Wilwood pedalbox

This next section requires modification, initially I was focused on the power brakes and swapped out the Wilwood pedal for the Whitby one.

I thought, hey that wasn’t too bad… and progressed. Following along in the manual, I prepped and installed the clutch quadrant, and pedalbox mount.

I was very happy with the result, and posted to the forums – only to be reminded that I’m doing a hydraulic clutch… LOL, I was so worried about the power brakes that I forgot about the hydraulic clutch. All this work and I have to tear it down…

pedalbox setup — it looked nice at first 🙂

So I reached out to Mike Forte and ordered just the Wilwood master cylinder setup for the hydraulic clutch. I’ll be ordering the rest of the bits with the Coyote/TKO-600 order.

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