Anyone ever used Wilwood pedals?

[blykins]

The floor mounted type that bolts to the floorboard? I've bought a clutch pedal and a dual cylinder brake pedal with balance bar....I would like to mount them inside the footwell on top of the floorboard....but the only thing that bothers me is having the master cylinders in there too. That means the remote lines would have to come through the footbox somehow....Any ideas? My initial idea was to build a pedal box, and mount it under the car...but Shell Valley's are a little difficult in this area...there are frame crossmembers in the way. Plus, to get the pedal box deep enough to give room for the master cylinder, the pedal arm itself would be way too short. Bottom line....those master cylinders are pains in the hindend.


If I mount the pedals inside the footbox, the pedal arms are a little long...but that's fine because I was wanting to use the AC pedal pads....I could just cut these off and weld the new ones on.


If anyone has any violent brainstorms, please send them my way.

[Fritz]

Hi blykins,

I'm trying to build my own pedal box, rather than buy one (I prefer the challenge of making most things myself - cost is usually the same when I'm done, but it's my creation). Do you have recommendations on cylinders without the reservoirs built into them? That's what I currently have in my Midstates/Shell Valley car. I'm hoping to incorporate it into the dropped footbox that's installed. I have a TIG welder and plasma cutter that I'm finally going to use for this project! Let me know if you have any helpful insight to cut down on my research/trial-and-error time, please!

Thanks,

Fritz

[blykins]

Wow, my only reply is 9 years later.....ROFL

I ended up making my own pedal box that mounted to the frame rail and to the underside of the foot box. I used Tilton cylinders, 3/4" bore.

[ERA2076]

76-Series Master Cylinders - Tilton Engineering



77-Series Master Cylinders - Tilton Engineering

[LMH]

You know, better late than never!
Larry

[Fritz]

Thanks everyone for the responses! We actually cracked 10 years on the reply I think...the initial post would have been made in my first year of college (nowhere near being able to think about buying a cobra kit).

Anyway...I'll try to update with a final product or in-process build updates as I get to the pedals. Do you have pictures on the site or somewhere for me to see what you ended up doing?

My priority now is paint. I need to pick a color and send it to the guy who used to do Midstates cars in Nebraska. I'm back in grad school now anyway...so the paint can get done while I have classes. Then I can focus on pedals, steering, and interior (dash).

Fritz