A hydraulic handbrake is fairly easy to plumb into a car - you just require the correct hardware i.e. cylinder, 120Y centre handbrake lever is a common one used. A hydraulic handbrake is not what is illegal for road use, the illegal part is if you disconnect the mechanical handbrake as well. A hydraulic handbrake uses common components used in the footbrake circuits and the way of thinking is if you have a failure in the rear circuit you lose you ebrake as well. Not really though as you must have a split cylinder with a hydraulic brake, but that's the law.
regards Terry -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blown 510 Sent: Monday, 11 March 2002 4:59 PM To: Ozdat Subject: Re: Disk brake rear ends Thanks terry. Also how hard is it to make a Hydraulic handbrake for a my rally car. I know they are illegal for road use why is this??. Thanks johnty On 11/3/02 2:04 AM, "Terry Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnty, > Skyline/Pintara R31 are the most popular rear disc conversion for a 1600. > The bits are cheap and almost everywhere and they are as easy as it gets to > fit and plumb in. The hand brake cable is the tricky bit, but these are > available in the correct lengths already made up new in Sydney at around > $140 the pair which is good value. > > A Bluebird TRX rear disc and R30 aren't too bad to adapt to the 1600 but > they both are a level up on the R31 as they require a new mounting bracket > whereas the R31 bracket can be modified to fit. > > regards > Terry > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Blown 510 > Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 8:32 PM > To: Ozdat > Subject: Disk brake rear ends > > > I need help on a disk brake rear end for my datsun 1600. > What do the blue bird rear ends bolt straight in to the 1600. > I have a modified rear end already in my 1600 with a 240 k diff and axels > the cross member is also modified to fit a 3 inch exhaust threw it as well. > I really like the rear end set up at the moment is there any way I might be > able to link in the the blue bird rear disks to my current set up. > Any help would be great. > > johnty > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
