What is it?

now i know how you have so many posts ray.

 

He says that the car was in Sweden when he took the pic.
There is a standard master cylinder mounted on the driver's side(again US)
and he did not mention if it was right hand drive.

I have several pics, but can't see the steering wheel due to reflection.
They are huge pics, I'll see if I can post them on my website and link
to them.


Seth

 

I wonder if what is in this picture is some sort of slave cylinder that operates the master cylinder on the other side? That would be a clever way to do it I suppose.

 

I doubt it has anything to do with the brakes. First it is mounted on the shock tower. Second it has what appears to be an egr valve mounted to it. I would take a guess that it is a homemade vacuum pcv system. The engine saw tremendous high speeds on the autobahn and likely needed such a system and back then most people fabbed up what they needed as systems (in europe even more so) was not readily available.

 

Hydralic cruise control.........

 

Ok, here is my serious guess. There are two hydraulic lines going to it so I'd guess it has something to do with brakes. If it has a manual transmission, it might be a hill holder system. When you have to stop on a hill, with the clutch pedal to the floor, you mash the brakes and it will lock them until the clutch pedal is released. That way you dont roll backwards and your right foot is free to work the gas.

 

PS. You only have to lock 1 wheel to do this so it might be locking the right front wheel

 

Dennis your probably right, although I never had one on a vehicle I owned over there you can find yourself stopped in some very precarious situations if you have a manual tranny.
I was 17 years old when when I was stationed over there and had never had a license to that point. The test was 150 questions and 150 signs to identify. If you passed that part but couldn't get your foot from the gas pedal to the brake fast enough...you failed. This was done in a simulator. The license you got was international and allowed you to drive anywhere in the world.They take their driving very seriously over there, particularly in Germany.

 

I'm going with Mavaholic's guess.

"Final ansa, Regis."

 

It is an early style Hydro-vac unit.

 

Did I win anything?

 

I'm with MAVAHOLIC or EARL.

 

IF someone knew whether you were correct or not you would have
won my admiration. Being that the car is in Sweden, and Wolfgang
didn't know what it was, we're out of luck until someone comes
along who claims to have one.

Sorry, no trophy!
Seth