Boosted Self Energizing Brakes- Do they improve braking?

[waynet]

Greetings all,
Will installing a booster to self energizing brakes improve braking and driving experience?
Are special valves required?

[V8COOPMAN]

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Originally Posted by waynet

Greetings all,
Will installing a booster to self energizing brakes improve braking and driving experience?
Are special valves required?

Take your dad's '57 Caddy with 4-wheel Bendix drum/shoe brakes. Undo the vacuum source to it's Bendix Hydro-Vac Power Brake Booster, and see how she stops now.

To answer your question, adding a booster should aid significantly in pushing the pedal down, possibly to the point of making the brakes very "touchy" if the system was not designed to use a booster. Boosters can aid in multiplying foot pressure dramatically. DD