[Tigers] Mazda brake conversion

[wsamouce at kc.rr.com]

Hey Theo, 

Makes sense. Once I get the brakes mounted, I will take a look at the handbrake end. I have an idea that may work. Thinking of making a plate that will secure the other end of the cable sheath at the hole in the body where the stock cable comes through the body. This will give the cable some bend for the suspension travel. I will just have a very short stock cable with the adapter I bought to the RX7 cable end.

Will take lots of pictures.

If that does not work, I will spend the $120 for a Lokar. With the project thus far is up to $360, 33% more for a brake cable would really suck.

Duke
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From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Smit, Theo
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:30 AM
To: CoolVT at aol.com; wsamouce at kc.rr.com; tigers at autox.team.net; Carmods at aol.com
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Mazda brake comvertion

If you have suspension on the rear axle then you'll need to have some slack in
the cable or else it will be pulling the rear brake on everytime you go over a
bump. And if you have slack in the cable then you need to have the outer
housing retained at both ends.

With the arrangement of the stock handbrake location, it's not possible to
give either side a 'straight' shot, anyway. I used a Lokar E-brake cable set
that included a very tidy cable retainer for the handbrake end as well as a
nice 2-to-1 coupler. I had to shorten the coupler to fit between the cable
entry and the handbrake location, and space the handbrake inwards about 3/8"
from the stock location, but other than that it worked perfectly.

Theo