Brakes are one of those areas that can take the project over the top. At least for now I have decided to be reasonable in this area. I'll run the Cobra for a season and then decide if more braking is necessary..... I suspect I'll have more stopping power than most street cars......but.... if I start track racing I'll upgrade to a CNC Master cylinder and a nice Baer braking system.
My Brake Story: When it came to bleeding the brakes I pulled out my trusty Mity-Vac and proceeded to remove all the air. The problem was that I was not able to get a hard petal. I must have spent 20 hours going over everything (3 times)... bench bled the master cylinder, triple checked for small air leaks, even resorted to the conventional pumping of the brake petal (Sandra helped with this one)..... replaced the Mustang MC with a new manual Jeep MC. Disassembled the calipers to make sure nothing was seized and removed the rear adjustable proportioning valve on the off chance that it was somehow causing my grief. Finally I put out a help request to the Cobra Club and within a few minutes Disk-Brakes-R-Us and Dv/Dt had the answer. I had the front LH caliper on the RH side and the RH caliper on the LH side. It took me all of 15 minutes to get them switched .... vacuum bled ... and then on to a lovely, firm brake petal.
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