Pedal Box

After much messing about with the old Mini Brake Master Cylinder I was never very happy with the idea of trying to plumb in a remote fluid reservoir. After a visit to see Paul Stares (R1FREESTYLE) it was pretty obvious that fitting a Sierra Master Cylinder was a much better solution.

So out with the angle grinder and cut out the front face of the pedal box as so:



Then prepare a new piece of steel with same hole centres but with a larger hole to accept the Sierra Master Cylinder and weld it on. We had to get the new plate a low as possible to ensure that it cleared the nose panel. After a bit of fiddling about I realised that tilting the top of the new panel back away from the pedal box by about 8mm not only gave more room for the nose panel but also got the reservoir closer to "level"




Very pleased with the result - Thanks to Paul for the idea and for sourcing the Sierra master Cylinder for me.