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Subject:Re: Comments on Splittie (brake circuits)
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:54:41 +1200

>>ok--the brakes--properly adjusted brakes are very adequet--gotta remember
>>they are vintage 66. ever try to stop a 66 muscle car--not an easy task
>>either. I live nine miles up with 3200 ft elevation gain on a twisty
>>mountain road. i've never had a brake issue--just gotta hang back from the
>>car in front of you. If I want to drive a sports car--I drive the sports car
>>(enter my 68 karmann ghia--absolute dream to drive in the mountains). Gotta
>>remeber that these are not self adjusting brakes--gotta manually do it every
>>so often.
>
>Question: are those single circuit brakes or dual circuit?
>
>Just curious. BIG topic of discussion on another list recently.

It would probably be a cinch to fit a Bay (split-circuit)
mastercylinder to a Split. As well as the front beam, with balljoints
& discs.
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Andrew Grebneff
165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
<andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut