Elan Plus 2 Twin Circuit Brakes
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 1:24 pm
Hello All. A sad story.....
I own British Elan +2 which I crashed after total brake failure. I have traced the fault to a dodgy seal in the master cylinder. It happened totally out of the blue whilst I was travelling downhill (typical).
In order to prevent this happening again I'm in the process of installing a twin circuit braking system, loosely based around the federal setup. I've sourced a new old stock federal master cylinder which will bolt straight in, and I'm also renewing all the brake lines and unions to cope with the change. However I'm a bit unsure as to what to do with servo assistance. My current plan is to attempt to run without a servo and see what it's like, but I was also thinking of copying the Triumph GT6 setup and only adding a servo to the front brakes. Does anyone have any experience of this kind of change? I don't really want to go down the route of two servo's that the full federal setup uses because it's expensive, and seems a little over the top. Any ideas....?
Nigel Fletcher
I own British Elan +2 which I crashed after total brake failure. I have traced the fault to a dodgy seal in the master cylinder. It happened totally out of the blue whilst I was travelling downhill (typical).
In order to prevent this happening again I'm in the process of installing a twin circuit braking system, loosely based around the federal setup. I've sourced a new old stock federal master cylinder which will bolt straight in, and I'm also renewing all the brake lines and unions to cope with the change. However I'm a bit unsure as to what to do with servo assistance. My current plan is to attempt to run without a servo and see what it's like, but I was also thinking of copying the Triumph GT6 setup and only adding a servo to the front brakes. Does anyone have any experience of this kind of change? I don't really want to go down the route of two servo's that the full federal setup uses because it's expensive, and seems a little over the top. Any ideas....?
Nigel Fletcher