[DeTomaso] master cylinder advice

[Julian Kift]

Quality brake suppliers (Tilton, Wilwood etc.) will size a cylinder for you based upon criteria like disc & wheel diameter, pad area, car weight distribution etc.
 
Tilton has an online submission form and I had them size dual cylinders for my GT40. I also have a brake sizing Excel based spreadsheet I found on the web which does the same thing and correlated with the sizes Tilton gave me. The Excel workbook is more useful to delve into the science and play around with different caliper sizings etc.
 
Julian
 
> From: justingreisberg at hotmail.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:48:20 -0700
> Subject: [DeTomaso] master cylinder advice
> 
> 
> Sso i put together my own brake system using wilwood superlite 4 piston calipers up front. I ended up using a ford master cylinder with a 7/8" bore, which i suspected was small. As i begin to drive the car, i am finding a very soft, spongy pedal with a lot of travel. I plan to go to a bigger bore master cylinder. I could easily use the ford SVO 84-86 1.125" master cylinder, but I worry that might be too much the other way. Although other fords have had 1" master cylinders, they generally have an angled reservoir which just looks funny, but wilwood makes a 1" master cylinder that is more money.
> 
> anyway, any suggestions 1 or 1.125" justin 
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