The quality of Gartrak fabricated equipment has gone down hill since they were working on the works cars.although it does do the job.The only problem we discovered with them is that on long stages the brake fade would mean you had to pump the pedal.for this reason we designed a pedal box which reduced this effect but required you to be firmer with the pedal I believe it costs £260 retail but is one of the few pedal boxes on the market which allows enough space to install power steering (contact me if your interested).I would stay away from rally design stuff in general to be honest. They have started buying everything from china these days and the stuff is (for want of a better word) Pants .Ralloy are making some really good stuff especially their alloy work. If their quality is reflected in their pedal boxes i would go for that

I work for a company who manufactures virtually everything for top end suppliers and for use on our own cars.they do no yet buy everything from China but for pricing reasons its heading that way. Rally design will not be beaten on price due to their bulk buying and is a good budget option and some of their items do the job just as well.However i believe often you get what you pay for,and brakes in my opinion are very important for safety.
In a modern spec car we are currently building we are fitting the AP Racing CP5516-7
which seems like a very well engineered tight pedal box.


For historic spec cars we manufacture our own based on a standard ford pedal box similar to Gartraks

Prior to your post smcka has contacted me looking into a possible supply of higher end components so that people have the option. I plan on manufacturing them in Australia if i migrate. smcka is a supplier and will be getting good reviews due to his good customer service and high interest in the items which he supplies.

I've personally purchased the pedal box that SMCKA sells and found it to be a get item, a few little mods needed however it (strengthwise) seems to be upto the task, 95% of people installing a pedalbox would be tossing the booster thus giving the brake pedal a beating, the weak point in the Escorts is the firewall it mounts to and it flexs under heavy braking and thus less efficient braking. If making a decision probably best to listen to people who have 1st hand experiences with either pedal boxes.

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this is starting to look intersting


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when comparing make sure you have apples and apples. I have just looked at the Gartrac Mk1 pedal box and nearly bought it until it was pointed out that you also have to buy their Grp4 throttle pedal which bumps the price up alot.

Would have been a great bit of kit to have on the car.

I have now just placed an order for the GRP4Fabrications box....hope I have not made a mistake!!!

Well the GRP4 Fabrication Mk1 hydraulic pedal box arrived a few weeks ago. I decided to give it a go and save a few pennies over the Gartrac unit but have the certainty of not getting Chinnese poo pooe.

It looks the business and appears to be well built. I have not mounted it yet so cannot say anything about how it operates.

Might have it for sale in the near future as I MIGHT change to a floor mounted pedal box....

I had the same issue with pedals sitting too high. I simply had a spacer made up for the mc's to avoid mucking around with the mc rods.