Removing the E-brake

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Any reason I need to keep my e-brake?

Just for the reasons they put it there in the first place. If you don't ever use it, I guess you don't need it.

there's a few more pounds gone :)

I don't have a center console and the thing looks ugly sitting there. It's either yank it or glass up a cover. I have a brushed aluminum cover for the shifter.

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In order to do that mod, you are required to answer the following multiple choice question.

QUESTION:

You have just crossed the finish line on a 140+ MPH pass. You step on the brakes and the pedal goes to the floor. You take the following action:

ANSWER (choose one):

1. Pull the 'chute.

2. Pray

3. Sh!t your pants.

4. 2 and 3 above, because I don't have a 'chute.

:D

hmmm....good point.

5. Take the smart route and Drag the quarter panels off the car in lieu of grabbing the E-brake handle. Odds are if you grab the handle you'll lock up the rear tires and stuff it in the wall or roll it.

Get rid of the extra weight if you don't want it there.

Would an e-brake even be able to come close to locking it up on the track? I would imagine "Sh1t your pants and pray" would still apply even if you did have an ebrake :) Youd just have a couple more seconds to pray lol...

toby, tonight on your way home while driving down the interstate jerk your e-brake handle all the way back and hold on tight. Let me know what happens.

I know what happens, I had a crazy girlfriend and we were fighting on the way home from a long trip, she wanted to stop about every 100 miles and I wasn't hearing that noise. She demand I stop the car, I said "NO!", she grabbed the handle and pulled it so quick I had no idea what happened. I though the tranny broke or a wheel popped off or ????? We ended up in a ditch after spinning across 3 lanes of highway. We were going 85 mph when it happened.

Last hurrah for that crazy girl, I never saw her again.

Yikes! :) Sounds like a world of difference from my experience driving the GF's CRX with no brakes to the brake shop.. the e-brake barely kept it from going down hills unless you completly reefed on it lol.

toby, tonight on your way home while driving down the interstate jerk your e-brake handle all the way back and hold on tight. Let me know what happens.

I know what happens, I had a crazy girlfriend and we were fighting on the way home from a long trip, she wanted to stop about every 100 miles and I wasn't hearing that noise. She demand I stop the car, I said "NO!", she grabbed the handle and pulled it so quick I had no idea what happened. I though the tranny broke or a wheel popped off or ????? We ended up in a ditch after spinning across 3 lanes of highway. We were going 85 mph when it happened.

Last hurrah for that crazy girl, I never saw her again.

I've never condoned hitting women...I'd make an exception...

In order to do that mod, you are required to answer the following multiple choice question.

QUESTION:

You have just crossed the finish line on a 140+ MPH pass. You step on the brakes and the pedal goes to the floor. You take the following action:

ANSWER (choose one):

1. Pull the 'chute.

2. Pray

3. Sh!t your pants.

4. 2 and 3 above, because I don't have a 'chute.

:D


Downshift...........while praying. :cool:

You know mines gone Jamie. I don't miss it.

From experience, when you downshift a manual valve body TH400, there is no compression braking...... :D

From experience, when you downshift a manual valve body TH400, there is no compression braking...... :D


Dammit, I completely forgot about that.

So I downshift, pray, and then realize I have no compression braking and then I sh*t my pants. :death: :D

No matter what course you take, it always ends with **** in the pants.

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