by manifold » Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:06 am
Hi Geoff,
Happy to help. Yes the twin balance bar system is really easy to fit. Just like it does on a mini, except for fabricating a plate to cover the hole where the master cylinder fitted. KAD supplied the mini parts which you can see on there website. Like Hans said, the shaft from the pedal to the plunger under the master cylinder is a problem. My system also has a bottle screw type adjustment, so you can take up the slack. I took up that much slack my brakes were binding to begin with! Fixed this by backing off a touch. You will need to convert front calipers to single line using a conversion kit like the minis do, or just buy some KAD 8.4 vented caliper disks, which are already single line. (makes brake bleeding a 5 min job as there is only 2 nipples on the KAD calipers and you are only bleeding either the front or rear circuit at one time, separately).
On the twin system you can buy different size master cylinders to suit the way you want your brakes to pull up front to rear. Have them adjustable via a cable adjustment (for racing only) and have remote reservoirs if you want to.
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