Dear SOL'ers
I've been thinking about designing a progressive brake system for my
car, and I would like some other opinions. It's my street car, but with
wide tyres and near race spec brakes, it stops well. The intent is to
produce a near even brake split at light pedal application, and a large
front bias at heavy pedal application.
I'd connect the master cylinder pushrod to an adjustable lever arm actuating
a conventional pressure reducing valve. System variables would be: Initial
and final brake bias settings, and Rate of bias increase.
My question is, is there a proportioning valve that is actuated by a lever
arm, and would it be able to handle the cyclic bias changing I'm proposing?
Am I completely off my rocker? Should I just retrofit ABS? Has anyone
else thought about this concept?
The car is my 1967 Spit-6.
Greg Meboe MEBOE@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
Dept of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University
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