Progress - November 2024

November 1st

The weather has been rubbish but, we are nearing the end of the huge task to rewire the MX-5e.

November 9th

Before we can power up the iBooster, we need to complete the pipework. Our installation is described in more detail in MX-5e Tesla iBooster project. We are retaining much of the old braking system including this front/rear bias adjuster but, we have replaced all of the brake pipes and unions. The bias adjuster only has one front output, so it uses a T-piece to split to the front left and right wheels.

Pretty much all of the plastic clips broke when they were removed and most of them were multi-way clips for brake and fuel pipes. After 30+ years the plastic becomes brittle, so we are fitting new brake pipe clips from a Land Rover.

November 10th

Started building the braking system from the iBooster to the MX-5e braking system. We bought a decent brake pipe flaring tool, to get consistently high quality flares. Once the loaction of everything is set, we will add custom fixing brackets.

The front outlet goes to a T-piece and then on to each front wheel. The rear outlet is a single pipe to the rear of the car and is attaches to a splitter mounted on the rear subframe.

November 11th

Before we can power up and test the iBooster we need to complete the braking system. We have run the Kunifer brake pipes from the rear junction to the bias adjuster and also added the front brake pipes.

November 13th

Started wiring up the iBooster today. The wiring is fairly straight forward with my connector kit including the crimp terminals and moisture seals. The iBooster has a permanent power supply (4mm² white) and a switched power supply (2mm² brown/red). The position sensor has four wires running to the main connector.

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