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[Kevin Wood]

What handbrake kit do you get with the DAX? my car has Cortina rear hubs and its hell's own job to tweak it to get enough Handbrake force to pass the MOT. I fitted a Jag handbrake lever to provide more leverage (bloody thing is on top of the transmission tunnel so no leverage from the drivers' seat). But I think the root cause is the wide rear wheels, am thinking of getting a set of steelies to MOT the car on - this will also save the perennial discussion about the legality or otherwise of the spinners  .

Crikey! That's odd for a kit car given the light weight. Mine practically climbs out of the rollers with application of either brake. Last MOT he refused to write down the measured percentages and road tested the brakes since he thought the numbers were infeasibly high.

[aaronjb]

Can't you build it up to a rolling chassis, fit the master and slave cylinders, bleed it and jump up and down on the pedal a bit? .. or does the body have to go on before that?

The pedal box bolts up to the inside of the footwell rather than the chassis, but yes, actually that should work.. once I buy a pedal box  (I was going to use the Dax one but changed my mind and decided I'd rather a nice balance-bar unit from OBP instead of the Mk4 Escort master cylinder..)

And Kevin, remember these aren't Sevens - lightweight is not a thing you can say about most Cobra replicas that start at ~1200Kg!

[Viral_Jim]

Crikey! That's odd for a kit car given the light weight. Mine practically climbs out of the rollers with application of either brake. Last MOT he refused to write down the measured percentages and road tested the brakes since he thought the numbers were infeasibly high.

Yeah, tbh there's something not right there, I just haven't quite figured it out yet. The things been in storage for years and I'm not sure it's had an MOT since I changed the brake leaver. The old one was about 10.5" from the pivot to where you hand went and given its position in the car, it was basically rather useless.

I might rebuild the rear brakes and see if I can sort it that way. Alternatively a rear disc conversion wouldn't go amiss. The only thing is that I'm planning on selling I think once it's all up and running (so I can build one from scratch) so nice-to-haves aren't really on the cards

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

I bought one of the handheld brake flare jobbies recommended on here when I was attacking the MV6. .. yesterday was the only time I have failed to fet a perfect flare - and that was on steel pipe attached to a car! Only about twenty quid if memory serves - much easier than lugging about the big Sealey kit.

To solve my steel pipe problem, I had a temper tantrum, then a brew, then ripped the whole pipe off and made it from scratch.