Howdy,
I'm putting a Twin Turbo 4.1 into an orginally NA Regal or some other G-body. What do I do to make the existing brakes work with the new Turbo motor? I get the feeling from reading the board that I need to avoid putting in the Powermaster setup at all costs. What is everyones advice on this? As a side note, I'm going to be running the TA 260H cam which is supposed to be pretty lumpy on a 3.8 am I even going to have enough vaccum to run a conventional system at idle?
Thanks
(Response by Bruce Plecan, who did as most do and failed to heed the link in the cross-posting to our list that would have allowed this reply to post on the board. I've posted it here, which will draw ire on the list by having it show twice... -Scott)
The PowerMaster set-up is but one of 3 setups. Each has their own up and down sides, it's up to the owner to decide what compromises he wants to
make. IMO, it's better to make desicions with all the facts at hand, and then weight them. If you like a real light pedal effort, then the PM is
the answer, and if no vac. then it's that or manuals. If your leery of the PM then you have the choise of vac, or manuals. Choices are about making desicions with all the relative facts, and not being in denile about what
they are.
If you car already has vac brakes on it, then it'd seem to me, to make sense to try those first and see how they feel to you. Then figure out the likelyhood of say winding up with dead engine, heck you might even try the
brakes with no vac, to see how they are in a worse case senario. Be advised thou, the pedal effort goes way up.
If you electrical skills are less then those of oem quality, then you might really think long and hard about doing a PM.
If your going to run power steering then you might think about a hydro-vac booster that runs off of the Power steering fluid.
Then again there is the old statement about *KISS*
Bruce