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

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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.
Lexus/Supra is the same way.. havent broken mine though... **knocks on desk**
Slightly off topic but my 02 WRX is nothing like that... Infact when I get a wild hair and decide to mess around with AWDrifting I go to a gravel parking lot and yank the shit outta my e-brake... I have also used it to initiate on wet pavement in the subby. But thats just because its sooooo hard to get a 227HP AWD car to start a slide... As my friends and I call them they are the noob corrector... You just drive at a turn and press the accellerator and the CD/2xLCDs take care of everything for you.
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Isn't it incredibly bad for the center diff to pull the e-brake like that?

Go for massive clutch kicks. That was the best way I found to slide all-wheel drive.
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subaru+ebrake+gravel=OK!

subaru+ebrake+wet pavement=lucky it didnt beak

suabru+ebrake+dry pavement=new center diff
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GC8VI wrote:subaru+ebrake+gravel=OK!

subaru+ebrake+wet pavement=lucky it didnt beak

suabru+ebrake+dry pavement=new center diff

Subaboobaru+ebrake+Andy Sapp=New Sababoobaru
This is true.
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i only use it when i park my car
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it works real well for that sport we call hard parking
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That is a motorsport of motorsports.
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My Z32 also has E-brake shoes in the rotors and I've used it in the rain but it scares me to even think of using it in the dry.
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Kagel wrote:My Z32 also has E-brake shoes in the rotors and I've used it in the rain but it scares me to even think of using it in the dry.
werd i'm runnin z32 rears on my s13, the drum ebrake is good for parking thats about it, thought about a hydraulic ebrake, figured i need to attempt to get the clutch kick and feint down FOERST. b4 i try to figure out how to use the ebrake PROPERLY.
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I use the e-brake all the time, doesn't matter what car, its getting e-braked.
Flip-A-Bitch nuff said.
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skylinesx wrote:
Kagel wrote:My Z32 also has E-brake shoes in the rotors and I've used it in the rain but it scares me to even think of using it in the dry.
werd i'm runnin z32 rears on my s13, the drum ebrake is good for parking thats about it, thought about a hydraulic ebrake, figured i need to attempt to get the clutch kick and feint down FOERST. b4 i try to figure out how to use the ebrake PROPERLY.


i have the same set up and did a hydraulic in mine. and yeah it is pretty amazing.
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