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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:25 pm 
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Will ripping the handbrake up in a Falcon snap the cable? i never been game enough to do it because i always thought that little cars can do it fine, but trying to stop 1500kg of metal could be a lot of pressure on that little cable?

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:41 pm 
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remember also in a RWD vehicle, you've still got the engine turning the rear wheels, so that's also fighting against the handbrake, were in a FWD, the handbrake isn't on the driven wheels.

Either way it definately won't do your handbrake assembly any good, might not snap the cable, might just stretch it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:45 pm 
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personally i wouldnt like to try it without reinforcing the whole brake assmebly/cable some how

as u said, thats a lot of weight to pull up with a thin cable

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:12 pm 
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just don't do it. that's a pretty good idea to go by.
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:20 pm 
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i can c tyres popping off rims also...

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:48 pm 
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if youve got a manual ripping the hand brake is no problem, only real problem is disengaging it, it snaps on, but is a pr*ck to take off mid corner.

p.s. private roads people

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:51 pm 
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lol
thats something a commodore driver would do..
and extremly dangerous!
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:16 pm 
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ok, i did a Handbrakie in the wet, alone with wet laps, good fun but ya get f**k annoing flat spots on ya tyres, lucky for me i was geting new wheels, didnt do f**k all to the cable might already be stretched.


private roads :D

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:18 pm 
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What about the fact that some E-series run a drum/disk setup..
This hand brake was purely designed as a park brake. ripping hand brakies only kills these bite sized shoes!

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:21 pm 
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:45 pm 
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I shove the auto in neutral and jam on the handbrake on the turns on dirt roads tis fun!!!,
would not recommend it on hard road surfaces but

 

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:47 pm 
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seems to work fine in my EL auto....not that i have to use it much cause i have another car set up for drifting (ED, interior stripped except for drivers seat and door trim and passenger seat and door trim, xr suspension, custom intake, extractors and race pipes and an LSD, and half rollcage i welded together: goes good for just over a grand :wink: )....on private roads a***

goin to experiment with getting hydraulic handbrake soon

 

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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:31 am 
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blackjack_original wrote:
What are you people, wimps!?
And you're not putting the mass of the car on the cable.
You might stretch the cable, but you'll stretch it anyway, with everyday use. I've got an auto and i do it quite often. (maybe because i don't give a s**t about my car)
Sometimes i slam it into neutral, sometimes i don't. Works fine either way. Just go out on a private road, and yank that mother.


I like your view mate!

I used to be a FWD car owner.. I used to be know as the handbrakie king....



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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:52 am 
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If you dont do it nothing will happen, if you do do it, something might happen, only one way to stop something happening, personnally i wouldnt bother.
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:00 pm 
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well if u wana be sideways before the corner its either handbrake or compression lock, neither of the 2 are good for ya car but how else are ya ment 2 b drifting b4 the corner in under horsepowerd cars.

 

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