All about brakes
I picked the Whitby Power Brake option for the Cobra somewhat as an afterthought. Originally, I was going to use electric power steering with a manual rack. But, I realized that the Coyote was much too wide for the ePowersteering option. As a result, I had to make some changes. This choice also influenced the power brake…
We laid out the wire harness, and there are ‘extras’ that we need to run. In this case, we’re talking about the 4 wheel speed sensors that have to run to the ABS HCU unit. The wires on the sensors themselves are 22AWG which is an absolute pain since it’s so thin. We tried several…
I’ve had the Wilwood Electronic Parking Brake kit for some time now, I actually installed the calipers a while back. On the MKIV you have to swap sides for the motors to properly clear the spring/shock assembly. It’s tight tolerance, but it DOES fit! My son and I wanted to ensure the system fully worked…
“You will build this car three times before you build it once” – my builder friends (circa 2020) A few months back, I ‘finalized’ the ABS brake setup – or so I thought… When I started bleeding the brakes, the HCU started leaking… I somehow forgot that the HCU uses bubble flare instead of double…
finished the brake line runs
The decisions in building one of these cars is hard enough, wondering “can I actually build this?” and then you make modifications. Every modification that deviates from the ‘norm’ definitely adds time and complexity to the build. Is it impossible? No. But it DOES take time and patience. Since I decided to build this FFR,…
Due to the vacuum booster, the mount point for my triple reservoir was impacted due to the touch points with the booster. So I moved it to the firewall, yes, it will be under the body – but I need to get this thing built! Plus I think it looks pretty clean! I ran the…
I have some catching up to do, and today I made some great progress! I started by setting up the brake/clutch reservoir on the firewall. I was really trying to get it installed by the brake booster, but it’s a large piece so I decided to move it to the firewall. I’ll run the lines…
Gosh it’s been a slow road lately! We’ve had 2 pinhole leaks in the garage, which has destroyed a few boxes and I’ve had to shuffle the garage around quite a bit. Fortunately it’s been in the garage and not in the main house, but in general it’s slowed things down. Anyhoo! I’ve been working…
It’s been a while since my last update, life’s been crazy… Last night my son came over to visit and we took a stab at aligning the front ABS sensors. I am setting up the ABS from the 2007-2009 Shelby GT500 ABS setup. When I ordered the front sensor mounts for FFR spindles from Russ…