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echo: crossfire
to: ROY WITT
from: TOM WALKER
date: 2009-07-02 07:53:00
subject: GM Re: Valkyrie R

RW> TW> BIG time and the used prices dropped like a rock.
RW> TW> Complicating the confusion between Brake and acellerator was that the
RW> TW> Pedals were at almost the SAme Lever where as on the US and lots of
RW> TW> other cars the Breke pedal is quite a bit higher off the floorboard.
RW> TW> The "fix" Audi did was to put a Spacer under the
Brake pedal to raise
RW> TW> it up. I My first Audi didn't have it and the second one I bought did
RW> TW> and I removed it as I liked the origional placement.

RW>One would think that with the pedal nearer the floor, if the mechanical
RW>assist were ever to go out, there wouldn't be any room for the pedal to
RW>move while you stand on it. Making it difficult to stop.

Actualoy according to the Laws of Hydraulics and since Brake Fluid is
a bascily a NON Compressable Liquid pedal travel has little to do with
stopping the car with NO boost. After some small amount of mechanical
slack is taken up IT is all a matter of being able to Press the Pedal
Hard enough.
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