I was curious about the brake master cylinder flexing under heavy braking. Master cylinder braces look cool, but surely there’s not that much flex in a new car.
I set up a camera to film the firewall as I stomped on the brakes as hard as I could.
With the eye of faith, if you squint there’s a couple of mm deflection (ignore the bigger deflection of the vacuum hose).
Does this matter? Probably not. I don’t know how to relate a possible small deflection to brake pressure loss, and brake pressure loss to “feel”. It seems plausible that a good driver might notice the difference a master cylinder brace would make. I doubt an ordinary schmuck like me could tell though.
Will I fit one anyway? Maybe. As I said, they look cool, and the placebo effect is equivalent to a real effect for the purposes of “feel”.
I set up a camera to film the firewall as I stomped on the brakes as hard as I could.
With the eye of faith, if you squint there’s a couple of mm deflection (ignore the bigger deflection of the vacuum hose).
Does this matter? Probably not. I don’t know how to relate a possible small deflection to brake pressure loss, and brake pressure loss to “feel”. It seems plausible that a good driver might notice the difference a master cylinder brace would make. I doubt an ordinary schmuck like me could tell though.
Will I fit one anyway? Maybe. As I said, they look cool, and the placebo effect is equivalent to a real effect for the purposes of “feel”.
Any one of those snake oil brake line vendors ever do side by side comparison of deflection vs brake line pressure? Fk the data, we want feelz!
