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

Tech mumbo-jumbo... not Gizmodo.

Moderators: charlie, darkducati

Korey
Ripe Meat
Posts: 115
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:59 pm

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

Post 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?
mikespeed95
Get Some
Posts: 970
Joined: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:41 pm
Location: Huntsfail....TEXAS. Home of Dan Rather.

Post by mikespeed95 »

i use it to parallel park all the time and do burnouts in my civic.
Image
Korey
Ripe Meat
Posts: 115
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:59 pm

Post 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.
User avatar
CodyW
Slippery When Westicles
Posts: 8549
Joined: Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:44 am
Location: emergency surgery in the studio
Contact:

Post by CodyW »

i sometimes use to initiate a turn or correct myself when i'm already in a turn
User avatar
PmartyX
Purple Drank
Posts: 2531
Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2005 8:03 pm
Location: CALI FINALLY!
Contact:

Post by PmartyX »

I use it to extend my drift. If the car has a crappy diff, I'll use it to initiate.
I am very safety driver!!!!!!!!!

Image

"if you see team rowdy in anyone's sig, just don't even read the post. From my experience anything they've said to me was assholish and most of what i read is the same."
User avatar
P.Haire
Trunk Junk
Posts: 14396
Joined: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:13 pm
Location: ZOO
Contact:

Post 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.
Image
please believe
User avatar
icantdrift
Salsa Rodeo
Posts: 5987
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:03 pm

Post 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.
User avatar
andysapp
I need to go outside
Posts: 28825
Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:07 pm
Location: KILL 'EM ALL.

Post 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.
Korey
Ripe Meat
Posts: 115
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:59 pm

Post 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?
User avatar
CodyW
Slippery When Westicles
Posts: 8549
Joined: Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:44 am
Location: emergency surgery in the studio
Contact:

Post 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.
Korey
Ripe Meat
Posts: 115
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:59 pm

Post 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?
User avatar
P.Haire
Trunk Junk
Posts: 14396
Joined: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:13 pm
Location: ZOO
Contact:

Post 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.
Image
please believe
User avatar
icantdrift
Salsa Rodeo
Posts: 5987
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:03 pm

Post 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.
User avatar
Greg
Muscle Milk
Posts: 11575
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:05 pm
Location: Seventh Circle Inner Ring.
Contact:

Post 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.
Bikes, Meat, Drama, Meat, Gossip, Meat, Metal, Meat, Buttsex, Meat, Family and some Drifting.
Korey
Ripe Meat
Posts: 115
Joined: Sun Jul 30, 2006 11:59 pm

Post by Korey »

Ohh, that makes a whole lot more sense now that ya'll explained everything.
Post Reply