hydraulic handbrake
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It's a hydraulic cylinder that you can actuate for the rear brakes for drifting.
I know an FC that has done it locally - anyone remember that FCS2K?
Personally, I think it's overkill since the FC chassis responds so quickly.
It might help in low-speed drifts, but high speed drifts it's overkill.
You need to source a hydraulic cylinder (i.e. brake master cylinder) and install it inline in series with the rear brakes.
Under normal conditions the brakes work normal if you don't touch it.
Once you touch the lever, it only compresses the rear brakes.
This allows you better control over the rear brakes other than the e-brake lever.
-Ted
I know an FC that has done it locally - anyone remember that FCS2K?
Personally, I think it's overkill since the FC chassis responds so quickly.
It might help in low-speed drifts, but high speed drifts it's overkill.
You need to source a hydraulic cylinder (i.e. brake master cylinder) and install it inline in series with the rear brakes.
Under normal conditions the brakes work normal if you don't touch it.
Once you touch the lever, it only compresses the rear brakes.
This allows you better control over the rear brakes other than the e-brake lever.
-Ted
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it would be for low speed, my e-brake is broken and it would cost just about the same to do this as to replace all the lines and such
but i have a question on how the mas.cyl would work.
i have a bit of a diagram on how i want to run it, so let me know what you think
i am pretty sure that the most left line goes to the rear, i forget, but for now lets assume that the left line does
the green goes from the brake biaser thing to the sec M/C and the blue goes from the sec M/C to the metal feed line to the rear brakes. i have figured out how i am going to mount the sec m/c and how i am going to run the piston to the handbrake, but the main question i have is, if the sec m/c is in place wouldnt that block the fluid to the rear brakes, thus making so only the front brakes work?
unless the sysem has like a flow through method so that fluid from the mian brake m/c would then push the fluid to the rear (as if the sec m/c wasnt there), and the brake would act as like a secondary force to the rear wheels
that is the only problem that i can think of. i dont know much about brake cyl, so that is why i am asking this.
also what kind of cyl should i get. i was thinking one off like a 510, or cars that are equipt with a secondary already in place. any ideas on that?
but i have a question on how the mas.cyl would work.
i have a bit of a diagram on how i want to run it, so let me know what you think
i am pretty sure that the most left line goes to the rear, i forget, but for now lets assume that the left line does
the green goes from the brake biaser thing to the sec M/C and the blue goes from the sec M/C to the metal feed line to the rear brakes. i have figured out how i am going to mount the sec m/c and how i am going to run the piston to the handbrake, but the main question i have is, if the sec m/c is in place wouldnt that block the fluid to the rear brakes, thus making so only the front brakes work?
unless the sysem has like a flow through method so that fluid from the mian brake m/c would then push the fluid to the rear (as if the sec m/c wasnt there), and the brake would act as like a secondary force to the rear wheels
that is the only problem that i can think of. i dont know much about brake cyl, so that is why i am asking this.
also what kind of cyl should i get. i was thinking one off like a 510, or cars that are equipt with a secondary already in place. any ideas on that?
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