umm I think I’m missing something.... do you yanks call your ebrake your handbrake??

My handbrake is on the passenger side? .... is this just a Aussie spec thing ?

 

Moving it to the other side would be a pretty major project, requiring cutting and welding the torque tunnel, some good fabrication skills and tools will be needed.

My vote goes for just eliminating it, it's going away with my wilwood 4 pot calipers installation anyways because theres no mechanical brake mechanism present and I generally just leave it in gear when parked. It can be annoying if you want to leave it running parked on a incline though, gotta stick something behind a tire.

 

I love when an old thread breaths new life. Anyway, I cut mine out (on a parts car) and fabricated it to the passenger side. Looks ok. Don;t think I will do it on my nice cars, not worth the hassle.

 

someone should tell havoc that his passenger side is our drivers side..haha

 

Im still not giving in to the idea that this has to be some big fab job - has anyone else heard of an e-brake made for the right side of the tunnel that would mount to the tunnel with little fab needed? I'm told the Miata unit will... but I have never seen one to know if it's even close.

Small town in northern Minnesota = difficult to run out and look at a bunch of handbrakes.

Guess Ill take a look for some parts diagrams or somethin... nothin else to do. :P

 

I'm not absolutely positive but I'm fairly certain there is NOTHING to mount ANY ebrake to on the other side... which means at the least you need to weld a mount... that's custom fabrication... you might be able to drill into the side, but then someone mentioned moving the ebrake lines isn't easy either because of how they're run. (I'm not sure I agree with that but I haven't looked at it like they did)

Honestly I think you guys all need to do this... BEND YOUR EBRAKE HANDLE! heh... I bent mine, I'll take a picture if you guys want to see... when it's down it's more in the way of the shifter than anything else... but it doesn't bother me being near the shifter and hasn't gotten in the way yet... did it months ago.

If you don't konw what I mean by bending it... you have the handle that is a tube, it comes off of a circlular piece of metal at the base... the handle as it comes off the base bends out towards the driver... just bend it back, not the circle but where the handle meets the circle.

--Gary

 

Yes, I'm aware of the fact that there isn't a set of mounting holes already in place for a right side e-brake... lol. By "little" modification I meant something less elaborate than what might require a master welder. :P

The way the FC handbrake is designed, it's made to mount to the left side - obviously. There is no way to take it apart and reverse the mounting bracket for example.

What I'm thinking is that there has to be an e-brake that is designed for the right side of the tunnel that would require no modification to the lever itself, but with a "Little" fab work, make a plate or bracket that would marry it to the tunnel. Plate to tunnel>E-brake to plate. The key is the proportions of the handbrake, if it has a cover that could be reused, and type of cable. I'm told that one of the right side Miata versions uses a cable that has compatible ends and is even long enough to route safely in an FC, AND, uses the plastic shroud.

It's entirely possible that the guy who gave me the quick heads up on the Miata handbrake is full of it.... (has yet to produce a link to a page that he claims shows the mod) But... here I am... hoping someone else has seen that "mystery" page or has played around with it enough to know the truth of the matter.

 

you guys must me huge to have the handbrake actually jabbing you in the leg. how do you fit your legs under the steering wheel?

 

6'1" 340 leg fits fine under the wheel, just tierd of getting jabbed on long drives.

 

E-Brake belongs where it is. Besides, if you need to pull it, its a lot easier where it is.

 

I have a spin **** on mine... so yeah, I kinda like where it is heh.

But for the sake of this whole thing... why couldn't you reverse the bracket?

Take a look at it sometime, it's been a while but I'm almost positive you could just torch cut it off, flip the bracket and weld it to the other side. I don't see why that wouldn't work... I'd have to take another look at it though, I can tomorrow.

--Gary

 

some of you guys are nuts, I stated earlier, I moved one on a parts car. can be done, decided not to go ahead with the move on a daily driver as it envolves too much fabrication. HAve to pull the carpet up, which means seats out, etc. just a plain pita.