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e-brake, in your car is it used or just look pretty.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:56 pm
by Korey
When your practicing or actually in an event, do you use your e-brake at all for any specific techniques, just sit there and look rad?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:57 pm
by mikespeed95
i use it to parallel park all the time and do burnouts in my civic.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:09 pm
by Korey
E-brake to spin your car around and parallel park? Thats always fun, I think Top gear had a show on it once.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:26 pm
by CodyW
i sometimes use to initiate a turn or correct myself when i'm already in a turn

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:40 pm
by PmartyX
I use it to extend my drift. If the car has a crappy diff, I'll use it to initiate.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:50 pm
by P.Haire
martymartymarty.net wrote:I use it to extend my drift. If the car has a crappy diff, I'll use it to initiate.
my car has a crappy diff, i use it to initiate. i also use it to extend drifts. i try not to use it too much, using the e-brake slows your car down. also you need to push in the clutch when you pull the e-brake.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:09 pm
by icantdrift
martymartymarty.net wrote:I use it to extend my drift. If the car has a crappy diff, I'll use it to initiate.

ditto. it's a good way to hold angle down straight stretches if you're running out of wheelspeed.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:09 pm
by andysapp
My e-brake is a small brake shoe inside my rotor... it doesn't lock up, only functions as a parking brake. I broke the shoes trying to use it for lockup... and later disconnected the entire system, so it doesn't work at all.

I have to park my car in gear.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:13 pm
by Korey
Why should you press in the clutch when pulling the e-brake up?
Andy, you have a brake drum type setup in your rear rotors?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:26 pm
by CodyW
i can't explain from a mechanical standpoint, but that's just the way it works.
yank the ebrake without pushing the clutch and youll get a nice, gradual slowdown. do it right with the clutch in, and you'll go sideways.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:49 pm
by Korey
ahh, I seee...Do people with AE86's, and other cars that maybe stock or low on power use the e-brake a lot more frequently?

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:06 pm
by P.Haire
if you don't push in the clutch the force of the engine keeps the rear wheels turning. with the clutch in it's easier for the rear brakes to lock up.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:12 pm
by icantdrift
Korey wrote:ahh, I seee...Do people with AE86's, and other cars that maybe stock or low on power use the e-brake a lot more frequently?

not generally. even though it's a good way to hold that last bit of angle before a turn, it also slows the car rapidly so using it a lot on low power cars will tend to slow so much that the car straightens out. if you don't time it right you'll come up short on the turn and have to straighten out as well to stay on course.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:29 pm
by Greg
andysapp wrote:My e-brake is a small brake shoe inside my rotor... it doesn't lock up, only functions as a parking brake. I broke the shoes trying to use it for lockup... and later disconnected the entire system, so it doesn't work at all.

I have to park my car in gear.
Subarus are the same way, small drum on the inside if the rotor hat.

Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:32 pm
by Korey
Ohh, that makes a whole lot more sense now that ya'll explained everything.