Anyone Ground/cut The Master Cylinder?

[Higgy 0]

Hi,

 

I was thinking about getting an old master cylinder and grinding off metal, to give a greater clearance between between the Mi cam cover and master cylinder. - Anyone done this?

 

Using an old one would give me some idea of the metal there before you actually cut into the fluid channels.

Hopefully it being a rough cheap old casting, there should be plenty of spare metal?

 

Here is a crude sketch:

 

 

Higgy.

[205turbo 32 2 Cars]

alastairh has done this on his 6 conversion,

[sutol 0]

As the brake pedal etc is fitted to a removable panel bolted to the bulkhead is it not possible to move this slightly rather than grind the cylinder as it is only a small amount. Or alter the angle at which the cylinder meets the bulkhead which would do it as well.

May be wrong but when I get a little better I will look into the possability.

[Super Josh 4]

Some people put washers underneath the lower part of where the serve/pedal assembly bolts to the bulkhead to angle it up a little for the extra clearance.

 

 

Josh

[Alastairh 47]

As Paul says, i've had to do this a couple of times now, heres what i did on my brothers S16 9 months ago, and had no problems

 

 

I've done simialr on my GTI6 with a 406 mc, but im going to play around with the engine mounts some time soon and lower the lump slightly and get a bit more exhaust manifold clearance on the bulkhead

 

Alastair