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Aftermarket ABS, Possible??? |
r_towle |
Jan 27 2009, 09:56 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,588 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States |
ABS (at least on my Volvo) is an independant ECU.
It relies upon four hall sensors, one on each wheel. Assuming the Hall sensors can be mounted properly and can be made to affectively send a signal, is there an aftermarket ECU system specifically for ABS brakes? Rich |
turnaround89 |
Jan 28 2009, 12:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 671 Joined: 17-May 08 From: Rockford, Illinois Member No.: 9,067 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
You must do a lot of driving in the snow to want ABS (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) . Sounds difficult, but WTH, go for it if you really want ABS.
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jhadler |
Jan 28 2009, 12:40 PM
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Long term tinkerer... Group: Members Posts: 1,879 Joined: 7-April 03 From: Lyons, CO Member No.: 529 |
You must do a lot of driving in the snow to want ABS (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) . Sounds difficult, but WTH, go for it if you really want ABS. Have you autoxed a car with really good modern ABS? It's too cool! Just keep your foot in the go pedal way longer than you think you should, and then bury the woah pedal. And a really good system will even let you trail into a turn with the car staying perfectly poised and balanced. No lock up, no over rotation, just tuck right into the turn right up to the apex. Then it's right back onto the go pedal again... I've thought about it a number of times. It is a competitive advantage. Not that a non-ABS car can't do the same, but it's soooo much easier... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) If it wasn't a competitive advantage, why would F1 teams (among others) have tried to incorporate it into the cars before it was banned? -Josh2 |
ArtechnikA |
Jan 29 2009, 06:27 AM
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rich herzog Group: Members Posts: 7,390 Joined: 4-April 03 From: Salted Roads, PA Member No.: 513 Region Association: None |
If it wasn't a competitive advantage, why would F1 teams (among others) have tried to incorporate it into the cars before it was banned? Because it's not about ABS, really, it's about traction control, and if you have an ECU that can independently control braking at each wheel, it's but a very simple and subtle hack to make that work like traction control (which is how it works in my Titan...) But the hard part is not the sensors and ECU - it's finding an ABS setup that was not designed to work with power brakes. Or finding a way to retrofit power brakes into a nonpower car. When Porsche finally went to power-assist brakes in the 911 they needed to make the move to suspended pedals - no more floor-mount pedal cluster. The vacuum booster gizmo is big. And you need to get vacuum to the front... |
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