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anyone fitted a remote brake servo if so what type and where

fitted  also it brobabily needs to twin line are thay avalable  

 

       kev

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Posted

Do you really mean servo? Or do you mean reservoir?

I don't think I've ever heard of a Westfield with brake assistance...

Andy

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yes andy.   servo as in brake assist has anyone done it  :love:

     kev

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Umm...can't think why you would want to? Wouldn't it just be extra weight for little appreciable gain? ???

Andy

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Servo's are *not* required. Save your money, time and effort.
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andy i have just finished my westy it has a 250 hp duratec

in it i also have another make of 7  with a servo not a remote servo

and i think the stopping power is mutch better

regards kev

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My race Westfield has getting on for 250bhp, and I'd *never* sully the braking system with a servo.

You *do not* need one, no matter how much power you have. If the brakes aren't any good, fix the brakes. Fitting a servo won't improve a badly constructed braking system...

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unless you want abs, then you have to have one.
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blatman   my car has just past the sva so no broblem with brakes

ime sure you have the sense to realise that some things are a personel prferance  if you cannot answer a siverlised question

 why bother if my brakes were as good as  your ego

 ide brobibly be happy

:bangshead:

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Hmm...slightly over the top reaction there.

All Blatters was saying is that (admittedly, in his opinion, but it's one I'd trust) that a servo really isn't required.

Andy

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dont agree . nothing in his post to say in his opinion. i only wanted a answer to my question
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dont agree . nothing in his post to say in his opinion. i only wanted a answer to my question

Fair enough. IMO, everything on here should be taken as someone's opinion...

The advice you're getting here is worth every penny you're paying for it...

Andy

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Servo will not make the car stop better, as blatters says, that depends on how good the basic mechanical set up is, what it does do is to reduce the effort required from the driver. This will be seen by some people as 'Improved Braking'. All my circuit cars never had a servo on (to much weight and complexity) and they stopped fine (Mallory hairpin sorts the men from the boys  :D  ) Other thought is with a new car just through SVA, the brakes are possibly not fully bedded in yet, I would give the car a couple of hundred miles then worry about it.

Dave

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strange how my mates 300 bhp V8 stops on a dime on standard cortina discs and uprated pads.Not a servo to be seen.I think that the only 7 'ish car that may use a servo is a Robin Could.But then you pays yer money.....

You could get an MG B remote servo kit and fit that.God knows where,maybe where the passenger seat is.Are you going to run a Diesal vacuum pump off the auxilary belt or imbalance the throttle bodies by running vacuum on one inlet port?

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This is my opinion :D A servo is not really necessary in a westfield unless you have a disability or suchlike, however if you must have one, for reassurance, there are two ways of doing it. For both you would need a twin circuit servo, the only company I know is SVC. The choice then is how to power it, one way is to run a vacuum takeoff from the inlet manifold which will cause an uneveness in one of the manifold tracts. The other way is to use a seperate vacuum pump which can be mounted on the end of the alternator like an astra diesal, or a seperate pump off a peugeot 405 IIRC. The twin circuit is needed because you will have a split braking system one feeding the front the other feeding the rear. I hope that is of some help in deciding to do or not to do.

Jeff

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