Alright, so my cable e-brake isnt making me happy anymore. It used to work great, but I cracked a shoe on it. Since my ebrake has been good to me, I decided to replace the shoes and got the spring kit as well to get back into action with it.
I must have stretched the cables badly enough, because now even with a fresh emergency brake setup (and a tightly adjusted handle), the e-brake still feels awfully lazy. I pulled the rear rotors out and adjusted the shoes to the point that they are a hair string away from the rotors, but still feels sluggish when I use it.
I'm looking around and I see tons of kits for hydraulic units that popped into the market, so many that it seems that it's common sense to put one together. However, I have seen a few guys put together their setup, and that didn't work out well.
The more I research, the more and more poor results I see. I see many companies with hydraulic ebrakes that behave just as my current one does: lazy and ineffective. Namely K-Sport, which sells the "drifting hydraulic ebrake".
I was involved in trying to better that K-Sport system at the track with the driver who had it on his car, and we were unsure whether the master cylinder used was simply garbage quality or whether the lines had something to do with it. We thought the T-fitting that was distributing the brake fluid between the two rear brakes was acting as a restrictor, hence the "lazyness" of the ebrake.
I'm really looking for something that'll lock up that rear end on command. Anyone has any suggestions on how to accomplish that?
Discuss,
- Erick
I must have stretched the cables badly enough, because now even with a fresh emergency brake setup (and a tightly adjusted handle), the e-brake still feels awfully lazy. I pulled the rear rotors out and adjusted the shoes to the point that they are a hair string away from the rotors, but still feels sluggish when I use it.
I'm looking around and I see tons of kits for hydraulic units that popped into the market, so many that it seems that it's common sense to put one together. However, I have seen a few guys put together their setup, and that didn't work out well.
The more I research, the more and more poor results I see. I see many companies with hydraulic ebrakes that behave just as my current one does: lazy and ineffective. Namely K-Sport, which sells the "drifting hydraulic ebrake".
I was involved in trying to better that K-Sport system at the track with the driver who had it on his car, and we were unsure whether the master cylinder used was simply garbage quality or whether the lines had something to do with it. We thought the T-fitting that was distributing the brake fluid between the two rear brakes was acting as a restrictor, hence the "lazyness" of the ebrake.
I'm really looking for something that'll lock up that rear end on command. Anyone has any suggestions on how to accomplish that?
Discuss,
- Erick
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