Electric Assist Power Brakes?????

[SoCal69]

I have this setup on my Camaro. So far so good. I never had enough vacuum for the booster so I tried a pump. The noise was incredible and it barely helped. Now I stop on a dime.
If my engine dies (and those things happen) I have 20 pumps before I run out of boost. After that it just works like a manual. Engine dies with a Hydroboost or a vac booster and you're standing on a brick.
We just installed one on a pro-street '68 Camaro. We didn't want to put a powersteering pump on it, and there's no room for a vac booster. I'll keep ya posted!

[Blown353]

Originally Posted by SoCal69

Engine dies with a Hydroboost or a vac booster and you're standing on a brick.

Not entirely true; while you'd lose all assist with the older non-accumulator hydroboosts, with the newer styles with accumulators you get 3-5 stops out of them with assist after the engine dies.

Good to hear it's working for you though.

Troy

[quadfather]

Originally Posted by SoCal69

I have this setup on my Camaro. So far so good. I never had enough vacuum for the booster so I tried a pump. The noise was incredible and it barely helped. Now I stop on a dime.
If my engine dies (and those things happen) I have 20 pumps before I run out of boost. After that it just works like a manual. Engine dies with a Hydroboost or a vac booster and you're standing on a brick.
We just installed one on a pro-street '68 Camaro. We didn't want to put a powersteering pump on it, and there's no room for a vac booster. I'll keep ya posted!

was the noise bad with the electric style pump?

[Blown353]

Originally Posted by quadfather

was the noise bad with the electric style pump?

I've installed a few. They can be quite noisy if mounted wrong. It's best to mount them as far forward of the passenger compartment as possible and also mount them on additional rubber isolators to cut down on vibration. Even then you'll still notice when they cycle on and off, but it won't be nearly as loud and annoying as a vacuum pump rigidly mounted to say the firewall.

Troy

[SoCal69]

Yeah, it was loud. I mounted it on the rubber pads, as far away from the firewall asI could get it. Spectators standing next to the car would ask me what the hell is that. The intake itself makes a barking sound and everything I tried to muffle it with just made it worse or made the pump not work. News on the '68 ProStreet, works great. Looks like we'll be able to take the first turnout now.