Looks great man! I think if i go with your same setup i can make it work with my power brakes. Hmmm... Let me go read the whole thread.
Hey Bryant do you think the setup would work two inches to the left? Like where the parking brake is at?
In my car the parking brake is more to the left? Where yours is at is where the pedal arm is. But still looks like itll work! Thanks!
the master cylinder is right against the air vent. if your car is an ac car like mo's then you dont have that vent. if you have the vent you will need to remove it to move the m/c over 2". the bracket to support the m/c would have to be redesigned to clear the parking brake. mo and i plan on geting parking brake handles from the slavage yard to put on top of the trans tunnel. the only problem i see with power brakes is running the hard line from the firewall to the slave cylinder. you will want to pull out the brake booster while you do that i suspect.
Yup, AC car no vent. Im also going to a tunnel brake setup. The booster is easy to remove. Thanks for all the info man.
so now that ive got the master cylinder located, i worked on the hard line from the m/c to the firewall. heres the fittings that i used. i got 60"s of 1/4 steel brake line from napa. i have found napas brake line to be the easyest to bend with out it crimping. i used a piece of stiff bendable wire to get an idea of the shape and length of tube ill need. the tubing cutter that i used. the tube flaring kit for an fittings that i used. the basic shape with the m/c end put on. its a little long so i have room to figure out right where to locate the bulkhead fitting to attach it. this was where i first tried puting the bulk head fitting. it was too close to the clutch pedal. i ended up with it being about 1.5"s to the right. thats where the circle for the stock clutch linkage is. this is the bulk head fitting where it comes out of the firewall in the engine compartment. heres the m/c with the hard line on it. heres the hard line going to the bulk head fitting in its new location. another angle of the hard line installed all thats left to finish the master cylinder installation is to make the firewall mount and the feed line from the reservoir to the master cylinder.
next i pulled the trans and started test fitting the t-5. heres the underside of the car before i started. first i unbolted the passenger side header from the head on top the lifted the car and drained the fluid. the fluid is still bright red and smells like new. this c4 only has 3500 miles on it. i plan on selling it with all its accessory's. here you can see the header is removed and the green wire is disconnected from the trans temp sensor. here the trans lines are disconnected. i had put couplers in the trans cooler lines right where the motor and trans meet. next i removed the drive shaft. the plate above is the reenforcement for the pro ratchet shifter. and the trans is out!!!! to get it out i had to move it back off the motor then drop the front down and go forward to clear the x-pipe. the converter is a hughes 41-25 converter. the trans was rebuilt with all the good stuff. it worked perfectly it just didn't have an overdrive and didn't off the fun of banging gears on a stick that i soooooo love to do. heres the sfi flex plate on the motor. i took it off and took my new aluminum flywheel to total performance who machined and balanced my motor to have the flywheel match balanced to the flex plate. heres the t-5 bellhousing and the plate that goes between the motor and trans. here it is on the motor for mock up purpose. heres the t-5 in place. im barely able to get it in with the x pipe in there. ok this part sucks. this is where the shifter hole needs to be cut. the two screws you see are for the brackets that hold the center stack of my custom aluminum dash to the trans tunnel. its going to be in the way of the shifter. im going to have to have the center stack redone to clear the shifter. hers another view of the t5 in the car. heres the aluminum flywheel and flex plate back from the machine shop. (thanks to total performance for there fast turnaround on get them matched balanced). they said the flywheel was a perfect neutral balance with out the weights on it. they put the small weight on and just had to drill some of it to get it match the flex plate balance. this is good because i can use the flywheel on an internal balance motor that i might do in the future. heres the trans mount ill be using. my driveshaft is 1" too long. im having it shortened by driveline of san diego and should have it back tomarrow afternoon. thats where im at right now. ive got some diffs to build. i hope to have more tomorrow if not all of it done.
Can't wait to see your car. You plan on driving it to Phx.? While you are here lets throw in my 5 speed too since you are now well practiced at it.
