Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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I have wanted to add a hydro-boost brake booster for some time now, but I really dont want to pay the 700-900 for a kit. Has anyone done their own? You can pick up rebuilt boosters for about $120 and possibly just have to fab up a braket or to.
So has anyone done this?
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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There's a guy I work with that's talking about going to a Hydro-Boost setup on his 81 Trans Am. Although it's a GM, he's saying the hydro-boost off of a late model Ram (diesel) is the right part number for the conversion.
I'll see what other info he can tell me and post it.
Kayse can't keep up at all now. lol
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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are vehicles coming from the factory with hydroboost now?
after converting my dakota from power to manual brakes, I think an appropriately sized master cylinder on a manual set-up is perfect. never before have I had the feedback I needed on just how much brake effort I am giving. with pwoer brakes, you can't feel the system at all, no matter how hard your stopping, the pedal isn't harder to press. on a manual system, the harder you want tostop, the more the pedal will "push back" for you, which allows you to really feel just how much pressure you're putting on the brakes
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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Forgive my age on the subject...
What is a hydro-boost?
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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are vehicles coming from the factory with hydroboost now?
'88 and up Chevy C3500's have hydraboost, gas or diesel.
Alot of thier other SUV's and what not do too. My '02 1500HD has it and I've seen it on a '04 Tahoe as well..
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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Go the easy way and put in the electric pump. The Saturn Vue has a small and quiet pump all the way back to 2002. Junk yard might even have them for less than 1/2 of $350.
Snap your neck, mega G-force launch, is all I want!
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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So you can't really use this hydro-boost on a vehicle that has a Vacuum booster because the cam is really lopey, runs 2 canisters AND had vacuum headlights.....right?
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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I guess I need to see some pictures, schematics, and installation components/procedures better educate myself on this
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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I guess I need to see some pictures, schematics, and installation components/procedures better educate myself on this
Next time you are in Torrance, you can check out my truck.
Basically, power steering pump to hydroboost, hydroboost to steering box. return line from each back to power steering pump. hydroboost mounts to firewall same as a brake booster would basically.
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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I guess I need to see some pictures, schematics, and installation components/procedures better educate myself on this
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Re: Anyone made their own hydro booster kit?
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The old Cadillac pump that Steve is referring to was used by Volvo as well, but has not been available for years. The newer aftermarket pumps are much louder, and do not seem to have the same vacuum ability.
If you have 4 wheel disc, chances are you will need higher line pressures, which hydroboost was designed for. It is silent, and uses the power steering pump to generate pressure to operate the unit.
I should have given credit where it was due. Peter turned me on to that Caddy pump. My problem with that one is that I didn't mount it with insulators and it vibrated loudly. So I just bought the SSBC pump and used it. I sold the Caddy pump for what I bought it for on ebay for $65. I'm sure it would have worked fine, though the SSBC kit is more attractive if you care about that. The ssbc is VERY quiet btw. I am getting 24" of vacuum before it cuts off I think, so there is NO problem with functionality.
I haven't done the rear disk swap on my car yet, so I can't attest to the effectiveness there yet. I'll know this summer.
After some thought, I think I will still go with hydro boost myself on the next build just to do something different... plus I am swapping from manual brakes, so there really isn't that much of a price difference between the two. The biggest benefit to hydro would be the space saving aspect. I am running a crappy red top Optima so I can fit my electric pump on my battery tray since I didn't want to drill holes in my car (the tray is a repop and I can remove it to have it repainted if I go another direction in the future). With the hydro boost, its up on the firewall, out of the way...
I don't think you can lose either way.
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