[Fot] dual circuit brakes on a tr4

[Joe Curry]

Kas,
Isn't 5/8 the same size as the clutch and single circuit brake master used
on early Spits? If so, that is the same bor I use on my Spit.

Joe C.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kas Kastner" <kaskas at cox.net>
To: "Steven Preiss" <spreiss at verizon.net>; "Greg Solow"
<gregmogdoc at surfnetusa.com>; "Joe Curry" <spitlist at cox.net>;
<WEmery7451 at aol.com>; <markvaden at gmail.com>; <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Fot] dual circuit brakes on a tr4


> In 1969 I made up a dual brake system for the Competition Department
TR-250.
> The booster chamber unit was removed. I used two 5/8" master cylinders and
> made my own pedal arm  that had a 4.5 to 1 ratio. It worked so well we
kept
> it on the TR-6 that replaced the TR-250 body and when I saw that car in
2002
> at Mid-Ohio it still had the same pedal box I had made so long ago.  It
was
> the way that I recognized the car as being my old racer.