nice!
you don't do anything under 110%, do you?

Looks great! But no update on how the brakes worked out? That's a shame you had to ditch the cobra valve covers,, to me they look the best on a classic mustang. 

edit: I see your text about the brakes on your last photo.  Congratulations on the improvements.

Last edited by HenryJ (8/15/2014 7:51 AM)

Update.
 
1-The groundwire at the gauges.
After I put a ground wire to the gauges panel, I noticed the gauges had a better light and were better visible at the dark. Better visibility will be probably using LED in the gauges. Maybe at a later moment.
 
 
2-The mastercylinder.
The mastercylinder I had was not looking nice compared to the rest of the engine compartment. It looked a little rusty and shabby.








So I was looking for a replacement for the mc.
When I saw the SSBC billet mc I was convinced that was  the right one.

 
At the SSBC website it was mentioned that it was “For vehicles with O.E. non-power disc brakes only.” And I was using power brakes. So I informed at SSBC if it was possible to install this mc at my power brake SSBC A120 configuration. Yes, It was possible but I had to use an adapter A21200. No idea how the adapter looked like. I couldn’t find anything about it. So the order was placed for the A0470-2 and the adapter. It took almost three months to get the mc shipped. This was not a stock part. The special adapter took another month extra. This was a difficult part to order. Summit couldn’t deliver the part at all and at SSBC it had to be special produced.
 





 
As it arrived it looked really big and I was afraid it wouldn’t fit the space I had with my export brace. But fortunately it fitted.











The ‘special’  adapter was something that probably could be made by any mechanic. Not really special.




 
After it was installed it looked great.







 
The pedal force for braking was the same as with the old master cilinder. The pedal travel was a little bit more, but not noticeable.

Ron
The Netherlands


 

Last edited by RonNL (3/18/2015 6:46 AM)

The firewall had to be knocked out with a hammer, in the shape of the booster. No modifications to the holes. The old brake booster was mountes on brackets, but the dual diaphragm booster was quite thicker,  and mounted on the brackets it will not fit between the firewall and the shocktower. So mounted directly to the firewall.  But it also needed some 'shims' for clearance, so that the booster didn't hit the firewall when the nuts are tightened.

The master cylinder was already upgraded from single to a dual bowl mastercylinder, what came with the SSBC disk brake kit. But that had some leak problems and became rusty, As I searched on internet I found out that a leaking mastercylinder occurs quite often. I read about someone was using  some 3m weather strip adhesive to seal it, and that worked for me also.  For the time being. But good things I read about the billet aluminium mastercylinder. No leaks and it also looks great.







 

Last edited by RonNL (11/04/2015 4:07 AM)

My electric powersteering has been installed by a company what is their main business. I think it’s also possible to do it by yourself. I had already hydraulic powersteering, but alway leaking little drops.  At the Dutch Mustang forum I read about members who had this option installed. So I called this company and I could bring the car in the morning and take it back home in the late afternoon. They removed the one piece driveshaft and installed a new one with half way the servo motor. And also a complete new Flaming River steering box. A small computer box (little bigger than a box of matches) is placed under the dashboard. The old powersteering parts were removed.

The new powersteering was a little different to the old one. The old hydraulic was constantly working and the new eps was working only at the moment there is a movement of the steering wheel. It assists with the servo motor at turning the steering wheel. It feels like having more contact with the road. The old hydraulic was very, very light, maybe too light.

One of the first days I was using the eps I felt that the first 10 minutes driving the steering was quite heavy, but after some driving the steering became more lite. This happened quite a lot. An e-mail to the  company who installed the eps didn’t help. So I replaced my battery and the problem was gone. It never returned any more. So an old, weak battery will affect the usage. Maybe the starter will take a lot of power from the battery, and that  will affect the power needed for the epas. I have a 65amps alternator. The servo will use between 5 to 20 amps.

I saw CJPony sells also eps kits, and has an installation video.


After a few months I also got a rack & pinion steering, manual because I had already a power steering. That r&p was a great improvement.

http://fyi.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=314

Last edited by RonNL (11/20/2017 1:13 PM)

Hi Alex,

I first changed from hydraulic-ps to eps.
Then I added to my eps the manual rack & pinion steering. (From Flaming River) The eps works great with the manual rack & pinion.  Driving with the r&p is very sharp, like steering a modern car.

With my old steering system I was constantly correcting with steering to stay between the white lines on the highway, or on narrow country roads. However after the steering box was replaced with a new one, it was not sharp enough.  The r&p was such a big improvement and driving was more relaxed now. Just keeping the steering wheel in place and no more left, right correcting. It was one of my best investments.

The eps draws between the 5 and 20 amps max.
I do have an airco (maybe using a few times in a year), a simple car radio what isn’t using much amps. When I drive at daylight I always have my front white parking lights and the taillights on, all led. Also the gauges are all leds. All lights on draws about max 2 amps. My headlights are H4 halogen, but using these only when driving in the evening when it’s dark, what is not often.


The installation of the r&p:
http://fyi.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=314

The bumpsteer issue:
http://fyi.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=2049

The LED conversion:
http://fyi.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=7230

On Youtube are several movies about eps.
https://youtu.be/N1fExx26nGY