Brake master cylinder brace = WIN
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I've had the Carbing FSTB for well over a year now and just reinstalled the master cylinder brace it came with. ![](https://www.miataturbo.net/images/smilies/bowrofl.gif)
The pedal is MUCH firmer with it. Less travel to grab, less travel to brake. Really nice.
The idea is like this:
![](http://www.carbing.co.jp/english/products/strut/image/masutercylinder.gif)
This is an old pic without it, but you get the idea:
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The pedal is MUCH firmer with it. Less travel to grab, less travel to brake. Really nice.
The idea is like this:
![](http://www.carbing.co.jp/english/products/strut/image/masutercylinder.gif)
This is an old pic without it, but you get the idea:
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That's one of the few things I like about that guy with the weird hair and the puke colored miata, he welded the shock tower brace in. There's a lot of fle in it since it's not really sitting on anything flat. I drilled a hole and put a bolt with a couple nuts for a MC brace, but it still flexes a bit on the shock bolts. It did help quite a bit though.
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not to be picky, but for those of us who have never seen the brace, that's a pretty small picture and isn't zoomed on the business end.
I'm asking be cause I can't find a string to search for that produces pictures. This websites search function doesn't discriminate between words. If I search "master cylinder brace" i get every thread with master, cylinder, brace or any combo of the words.
I'm asking be cause I can't find a string to search for that produces pictures. This websites search function doesn't discriminate between words. If I search "master cylinder brace" i get every thread with master, cylinder, brace or any combo of the words.
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Use quotes around your words, it's supposed to work but I'm pretty sure I've tried it before and it doesn't always work. There was a thread about new search features a while ago, I could be doing it wrong.
Anyways, the search is pointless, its a bolt pushed up against the master cylinder. Some people use a little nylon spacer supposedly to protect the master cylinder from damage, but I've been using a bolt out of my hardware drawer for years and it's fine.
Here's a pic on FM's site from their 2nd super four challenge car. That's all it really needs to be, a bolt against the mc.
Flyin' Miata : Supertuner Challenge : The event
Anyways, the search is pointless, its a bolt pushed up against the master cylinder. Some people use a little nylon spacer supposedly to protect the master cylinder from damage, but I've been using a bolt out of my hardware drawer for years and it's fine.
Here's a pic on FM's site from their 2nd super four challenge car. That's all it really needs to be, a bolt against the mc.
Flyin' Miata : Supertuner Challenge : The event