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rabidbeetle Casual Dubber

26 posts · joined Aug 2010 ·

#818209
Considering adding a VH 40 booster to my oval,motorists these days have no consideration for old buses and beetles especially in todays traffic,anybody done this mod considering only boosting front brakes,and possibly then swaping to 58-64 brake setup if still need more stopping power.

Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,785 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#818224
Speak to Grumble on here
He does a similar conversion
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4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 ·

#818235
i was going to say Vh44 as they are a little smaller than the vh40 ,early holdens ran vh44 with drum brakes and vh40 with the disk/drum combination
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Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 ·

#818238
A brake booster isn't going to make your brakes work any better, it just lessens the force needed on the pedal.

For that sort of money if it were me I'd be spending it on upgrading to front discs

vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 ·

#818342
I played around with this set and found it created a brake inbalance towards the front and it heated up the drums and they faded sooner, it only reduced the pedal pressure, it would be different if you boosted the back and front

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 ·

#818402
A booster would be great with all wheel disks.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

vwo60 Veteran Volks Folk

2,036 posts · joined Feb 2007 ·

#818421
On such a light car it would be a waste of time, on my 60
model its got 300mm vented discs all round with 4 spot calipers, brakes excellently with no booster and minimal pedal pressure