Comments on: Progress, Progress, Progress http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=progress-progress-progress Motor racing for Mere Mortals in 750 Motor Club RGB series Sponsored by AB Performance Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:03:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: AdrianM http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-194 AdrianM Wed, 09 May 2012 21:24:46 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-194 You do need it cockpit adjustable, and you do fiddle with it pretty frequently… not normally 3 times a lap like the F1 guys do. But pretty often on a drying track, as things like the braking zones progressively dry out.

]]> By: nick997 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-192 nick997 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:34:40 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-192 Scrap that question, just answered it myself with a look at Rally Design’s website!

Cheers

Nick

]]> By: nick997 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-191 nick997 Wed, 09 May 2012 08:27:30 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-191 Thanks Adrian, is the remote adjustment an off the shelf kit do you know? For various reasons I had the brake balance kit in and out a few times at the start of the build so know it fairly intimately… There’s a slot for a screwdriver at one end of the rod, I had assumed that this meant it would be a manual adjustment in the paddock to change the balance – not ideal for something that needs trial and error testing on the circuit. If there’s a kit that I can get that attaches to this to give remote brake balance that would be great.

]]> By: AdrianM http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-190 AdrianM Tue, 08 May 2012 18:34:49 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-190 You’ll be fine… Tim is always cutting down his MC rod lengths to accomodate his adbnormal leg length… so you can adjust it eitherway if you need to.

A

]]> By: AdrianM http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-189 AdrianM Tue, 08 May 2012 18:33:47 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-189 Hi Nick, yes its remotely adjustable by a knob on the dash, which twiddles the central bias bar remotely using a twisty cable. I just haven’t fitted it yet as I need to fit the side panels first. The way they work is that the pivot bearing in the middle is basically fixed on the rod. As you twiddle the rod it turns through the threaded bushes in the master cylinder clevises. This has the effect of moving the rod sideways through the clevises, which in turn moves the pivot point towards one MC or the other. As moving the pivot alters the ength of the lever ratio , it effectively alters the distribution of the braking force between the mc pushrods, and hence between the braking circuits.

Adrian

]]> By: nick997 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-188 nick997 Tue, 08 May 2012 08:22:55 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-188 Hi Adrian

Is your brake balance remotely adjustable or a hands and tools down the foot well job? I bolted what looks like the same part to the Westfield and thought that it would be a case of adjusting with a screwdriver on the end of the balance bar. When I was spectating at Silverstone I noticed that most cars seemed to have remote adjustment for brake balance, are you planning to do likewise.

Cheers

Nick

]]> By: DH2 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065&cpage=1#comment-185 DH2 Sun, 06 May 2012 20:13:46 +0000 http://www.akccmoore.com/rgbracer/?p=1065#comment-185 Good progress.
I think I will have the opposite problem with the brake pedal, which worried me for a moment when I read your entry, but I remembered I had a free reign for the bulkhead which the MCs will mount to. Hope I got it right!

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