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May 17, 2004: A fun weekend of playing with brakes.
The frame surgery has been done and it worked out quite nicely. In the next few days I'll put together a reinforcing plate to replace the parts I had to cut out. It should be a nice clean setup when I'm done. Now that I have the pedals in place I can start finalising the rest of the driving position. Happily, there's even enough room in the footwell for me to wear normal shoes. I'm not sure if I'll be able to work out a dead pedal of any sort. I also have to find a couple of pipe to flare adaptors - for some reason, the Wilwood master cylinders have pipe fittings on them. That seems a little odd but there may be a good reason. I'm used to dealing with flare fittings for the brakes.

A bit of a puzzle. CMC put a small bracket on the frame that's intended to be the junction between the clutch flex line and the hard line. It's placed in a similar location to the Miata one - but the Miata has it quite a bit higher. I realised that the factory bracket could be bolted on the firewall on the other side of the engine, giving a nice clean install that still leaves enough room for significant engine movement. This makes the hard lines easier to route and tidies up the engine bay. I'm pretty happy with it.

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