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Old 02-03-20, 04:24 PM
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Question Bad Brake Booster. Options?

The brake booster in my 79 rx7 won't hold a vacuum at all, causing a huge vacuum leak and terrible brakes.

I did some looking around on the forum and a lot of people have just had them remanufactured. After looking around at a few sites like Rock Auto, nobody seems to offer this service anymore for these boosters.

I know the rx8 booster is the same bolt pattern as well as the Miata booster, but brand new, or even remanned, both of these boosters run close to $150 or above.

The Mazda 323 booster looks the same and Rock Auto only wants 60 bucks for one remanufactured. Can anyone confirm if these boosters are interchangeable?

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Old 02-03-20, 09:58 PM
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Call this company :

Power Brake Exchange
260 Phelan Ave San Diego Ca.
408-292-1305

I have had several brake boosters rebuilt by them,last one a month ago. 1ton dual diaphragm booster for Dodge truck i’m restoring. I sent them my booster and had it back in 10 days. Cost $125 for rebuild and shipping back.
They’ve done several FB boosters for me.

Give them a call,I believe it would be cheaper and easier to get your booster rebuilt than try to retrofit something else into your car.
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Awesome, I'll call them tomorrow. After doing more research into it, I am definitely leaning towards having mine rebuilt. I sent some emails to Cardone and Prior because I know they've rebuilt SA and FB boosters before for Rock Auto. I think I read on Cardone's site that they don't accept payment directly, it has to go through something like Rock Auto.

I was looking at the 323 booster and it's almost an inch bigger in diameter, so it wouldn't fit easily in my SA anyway.
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Stay away from Cardone reman products,all their stuff is bottom of the barrel junk.
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Well, there you go. I'll call those people tomorrow then.
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