The pedal assembly I'm going to be using is from a 1993 Honda civic it fits well and I like the profile of the pedals. My question is, Can anyone see a problem using the factory Honda master cylinder and brake booster to run the jag front brakes and old style drum rear? The car the pedals came from was factory with a disk front and drum rear set up. Granted the Honda brakes were a lot smaller but can this become a problem for me?
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!
Thanks guys

 

Trey, I would first check the mc piston diameter. Most full size cars are in the 7/8" to 1 1/8" range. I assume you have the four piston jag calipers on the front and drums on the rear. My truck has the four piston jag calipers on the front with ford explorer disks on the rear. I'm using a 1 1/8" mc with a dual 7" booster. Standard "hot rod shop" parts. I run a proportioning valve on the line to the rear brakes. With 15" of vacuum my pedal is firm, it doesn't feel like typical mushy power brakes. If I wanted a softer, lower effort pedal I could go with a 1" mc. Lots of guys on this forum are running jag calipers with drum rears. I believe they are mostly using 1" masters. So, I would start by checking your mc piston diameter. If it's in range, I would check what type of fittings and brake line that mc needs. If you have difficulty in adapting what's probably a metric mc to sae lines, you may consider keeping the pedal and adapting a "corvette" mc. Most of the "hot rod" mc's are pretty easy to adapt. The push rod on mine was threaded and I trimmed it to length and capped it with a rod end at the pedal.