Petemate
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| posted on 27/6/05 at 04:14 PM |
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Westfield brake balance
Hi all
I have a mate with a Blackbird engined Westie. Among the various problems (resulting in two pages of fail points on SVA) we have rear brakes too
efficient. The car was built from a full kit, and there is no mention of any pressure limiting arrangement for the rear brakes. SVA brought up rears
too efficient, better than fronts. The rear set-up is disc. Make no mistake, Westfield have been totally useless with all of his queries including
this one. I have never heard of any company so unhelpful, and am not afraid to say so. I have advised him to obtain and fit a pressure-reducing valve
as fitted to Fiestas etc. Will this suffice? Any one else had this problem?
Answers gratefully received.
Petemate
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spaximus
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| posted on 27/6/05 at 04:27 PM |
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westfield
I have never seen a westfield with more than a few points of failure, no matter how badly built. As for the brakes if your mate would like to visit
the Westfield forum with details of what is fitted I am sure we can help him out. The easiest way to get the balance right is to fit bigger front
brakes but that is assuming he only cortina ones at present.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 27/6/05 at 04:36 PM |
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Either a rear pressure limmiting valve is needed in the rear brakes the Fiat Uno valve is popular and very cheap see
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=21534
or a biased pedal box
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Petemate
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| posted on 27/6/05 at 04:56 PM |
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Hi guys
Thanks for your speedy response - I'll pass the info on. Great forum!
Petemate
[Edited on 27/6/05 by Petemate]
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Hellfire
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| posted on 27/6/05 at 04:57 PM |
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Change the pads on the front to more efficient one's. Replace the rears with less efficient one's.
As long as Front's lock up before Rear's - problems resolved.
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James
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| posted on 28/6/05 at 10:09 AM |
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Pete,
We may be able to help with the other failure points.
Can you scan the sheets in or list the failures?
Cheers,
James
P.S. The tester hadn't recently caught your mate in bed with his wife or anything had he?  
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