FrankenMini Weblog
Update for June 3rd/2007
Well, it is all about brakes. Been doing a ton of reading and discussing with some very helpfully people in the CASC-OR forums. I bought a brake pressure tester and took pressure readings at the bleeder (both inboard and outboard) of the front calipers. I was getting around 400psi to the front. This sounded low to me. I emailed Tilton today (as in Sunday), the makers of the master cylinders, the 75-Series, through a form on their website. How's this for customer service, a great guy named Mike O'Neil from Tilton called me no more than 5 minutes later! On a Sunday afternoon! That rocks. We talked for a good 10 minutes. He ran some numbers and determined I should be seeing 600psi, with 90lbs of pressure on the brake pedal. This owing to the 6:1 pedal ratio and 0.750" master cylinders (0.44sq inch). He believes the balance is shifted, via the balance bar, too much to the rear brakes. The brakes aren't locking as there is a proportioning valve on the rear brake line. So I'm going to adjust that and see where it goes.
Here's hoping this does the trick. Regardless, Tilton just got a customer for life. 
Published at 23:09:27, Sunday, 03.06.07