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Yes, its still enough for the booster but I did have some return-to-idle issues to work out too as hard stops would drag the engine down a bit
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Good to know. I plan to run a VT booster, master and brakes and 260º @ 0.050 cam. Not sure what the vac will be like but hoping that will still be a lot better than the stock 1" VP "v8" brakes my S pack has which is way worse than the stock v6 brakes which already don't stop.

I remember the first test drive I missed the sellers driveway lol.
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I use a 262° @ .050" cam with 106° lsa & still has enough for vacuum brakes to operate.
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Awesome! Now all I need to know is if tall V6 rocker covers will even clear the booster :lol:
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thats some nice fab work, your certainly putting a lot more effort in than most people would!
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Yeah I went back to the start of this post and re read. Some awesome work done here
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I did the same, some top level work there :thumbup:
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Previously I had hacked up a VN throttle body linkage to get the progressive lever. This was definitely better than the original lever which was too touchy to be driveable.
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However I was still looking to tidy that up a little and improve progression, so I made a new one. You can see how much closer to the throttle shaft the cable is at the anchor end.
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Just clears everything and allows full throttle just as it hits the secondary lever:
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Took the car for a WOF inspection one of the days we had some major flooding a few months back, turns out driving through the water uncovered some hidden issues and failed on some rust inside the guards both sides.
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Turns out a previous repair to the inner structure of the guards had been left with the bottom part of the flange missing, which has just packed full of dirt over the years. The water washed some of that out leaving a hole. On the driver side this was still only the guard itself, so I just had to rebuild the flange that sits against the pillar.
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On the passenger side, the mud packed in there had started eating away at the base of the A pillar.
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Fresh metal required.
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Rebuild the inner structure and seal it up.
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The fit of the front guards has never been very good, as it turns out the previous repair to the inner structure was also responsible for this. The passenger side had a big shim to get even close to reasonable position, notice the gap between the flange and the pillar.
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But even the shimming didn't give a particularly good result on the outside.
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Removing the part of the flange that needed replacing allowed moving things around to get a slightly better fit.
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While mucking around with gaps something that had always annoyed me was the passenger side window frame. According to my measurements there's no significant difference between the openings left and right, so resorted to a bit of brute force and ignorance.
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Now I can no longer get my finger in between the window frame and body, and the seal sits in the right place. Good enough.
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