Does anyone have this brake mod?

[SomeStrangeSin]

Or have you seen it? Check it out
http://www.nixim.com/cart/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=3

apparently it helps with the pressure of the brake pedal if you have this is it worth getting?

 

[humpus]

I don't, but I found this: http://www.thewayiplay.com/mainforum/index.php?topic=605.0

 

[Radracing]

It's just a piece of eraser you can either got to an office supply and buy one for less than $2 or use a peice of rubber bushing which I have done and it works great. You can adjust the brake pressure by cutting the length of the eraser or bushing that you insert inside the spring tensioner. The shorter the lenght the less resistance the longer it is the harder it is to depress the brake. Make sure you don't make it too long or you won't be able to get full lock on you brakes.

 

[SomeStrangeSin]

It's just a piece of eraser you can either got to an office supply and buy one for less than $2 or use a peice of rubber bushing which I have done and it works great. You can adjust the brake pressure by cutting the length of the eraser or bushing that you insert inside the spring tensioner. The shorter the lenght the less resistance the longer it is the harder it is to depress the brake. Make sure you don't make it too long or you won't be able to get full lock on you brakes.

oh alright good idea! i skateboard and i have extra rubber bushings for the trucks on the board. what size is the bushing you use though? how long and how big around?

 

[opelgt1969]

oh alright good idea! i skateboard and i have extra rubber bushings for the trucks on the board. what size is the bushing you use though? how long and how big around?

I read about this a while back and wrote down the size. They were 15mm x 15mm, length 30mm. I've not tried the mod but if I were you I'd try this size and maybe cut a couple longer before starting so you could trim them to get the "feel" you want. The size were for "foam" pads. You might want to check them after a couple days to make sure they are not falling apart inside the brake.

 

[SimYouLater]

I have tried the nixim mod. Its made of an unusual type of laminated 'rubber?' (or some sort of synthetic equivelent). The feel of the pedal was much more like a hydraulic brake pedal and reduced the amount of pedal travel. The problem with this mod when playing GranTurismo is that the pedal travel is limited and you cant fully apply the brakes. This would be fine when playing computer sims as you can calibrate this. I cut some circles of a few different densities of soft rubber and some plastic circles out of an ice cream container to go at each end. I mixed and matched the different pieces until I got a firm pedal that I could push to the stop with a fair bit of effort. This worked quite well.
I have fitted an apelectrix load sensor in the last few days. The old sponge rubber mod was prabably easier to use with threshold braking. Pedal travel is reduced to about one third with the load sensor which is great for heal and toe if you use the clutch. At this time I have had no improvement in lap times with the sensor, and feel that it is harder to be consistent with trail braking, but this is only an early observation.

The short answer, if you dont play computer sims, the nixim rubber will prabably prevent you pushing the brake to the stop without eventually breaking something. Try making your own.