Hi John
Thanks for the confirmation. Yep, I have the adjuster and have been playing around with it. I can easily make the fronts lock up then the rears or the rears first (promoting interesting oversteer going into roundabouts
).
All this works fine and I get that the car is lightweight and will lock up (with no ABS) but my concern is the very little amount of force required to lock up.
My car currently set up the way it is needs a radically different mental approach to braking. For example, if needed to do an emergency stop then the reaction is to tread on the brakes quickly but with my car I would need to do this and NOT apply a lot of force as the car would lock. Locking up from anything above 40mph is not going to end well no matter how good you are at cadence braking.
My gut feel is that the bore size needs changing so that I can get the right amount of pedal feel (pressure applied) before lock up.
When I was running the standards on the rear the car did not behave like this. Changing to Alcons should give me better feel, reduce brake fade etc but the clamping force should not be too great that it induces lockup with minimal pressure. This is more a function of pedal ratio and Master Cylinder bore size.
I’ll have a chat with Steve at the factory but I’d still be interested if any other Nomad owners are running three 0.7 size bores as increasing the bore would help solve my issue (unless this is factory standard and all Nomads behave like this, but I can’t help but believe that is not the case).
Cheers
Ian