Willwood hrdraulic Handbrake

[johnny46]

Hi all

I have a willwood hydraulic handbrake to put on my 2nd gen trans am obviously not for road use and before I investigate further I wondered if anyone knew where I would t it into?

All lines and fittings are new on the car would it be a simple case of t'ing it into the line from front to rear??


Thanks all

Johnny

[bhm1712]

I'm no expert Johnny, but a quick search online has thrown up some circuit diagrams for hydraulic hand brakes and all of them show that you need to split the pipe between the master cylinder and before the T piece that splits the rear line to the left and right rear brakes and fit the E-brake at that split.

[johnny46]

I've just spoken with someone in the know and they confirmed what you said.

Cheers Ian

[bhm1712]

thats good, so when are you fitting it??? is this for burnout fun or as a better handbrake than standard?

[bhm1712]

never heard of this is it some thing that would be good for mine ( burnouts ) have you any links to this

I think its similar to a line locker basically.....but it locks the rear brakes up instead. so thinking about it, its no good for burnouts, just a handbrake.

http://www.driftworks.com/hydraulic-han ... wwodSaIAhA

[SUPERCHARGEDGTA]

better handbrake turns

standard fitting on drift cars and rally cars

[bhm1712]

Cool!

If I had one I think the subframe would separate from the body if I did a handbrake turn.

[Newcastle knight]

So going off that do you not have any rear brakes at all when pressing the pedal, the only work when pulling the lever ?

I want something along those lines but with a foot operated pedal, the way they done it in the tv show was to fit a switch on the floor which changed the car from using all 4 brakes to disengaging the front brakes so they could lock the back wheels up for the big 180's and still have full use of the steering wheel.

[SUPERCHARGEDGTA]

the foot brake still operates the rear (and front) brakes as normal
the handbrake operates separately just using hydraulics rather than cables and levers etc

[johnny46]

What superchargergta said, its a little add on to make the car turn just a little bit quicker if i see my nan at the bus stop goin the other way

all plumbed in couldnt fully bleed it yet as waiting on both rear parking brake plates as they wer both broken