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Frizzle Fry · 10-27-2011, 02:13 PM

Part of the reason I placed the calipers in the front was to accommodate the e-brake cables. They now faced the wrong way:

Since no performance car is complete without a functional turning brake

the ebrake cables/brakcets/belcranks had to be reconfigured (lots of rework here too)

Once the cables were pointing in the right direction, I needed a fun-lever to pull them. I looked at reusing the stock piece, and as novel as it was being on the left of the driver, I never really got used to it there. I looked at relocating it to the center, but it was too long and would have had to mount basically under the seat to put the handle in reach...

So yet another S2000 piece found it's way into the mix. I made a platform mount for it and reworked the lever mounts themselves to obtain an angle/height that works with the trans tunnel:

10-27-2011, 02:13 PM	#1005
Frizzle Fry Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Hillsboro Oregon Posts: 6,449	Re: '66 Sunbeam Minx Project - F20C/6sp/4-link/Discs... Part of the reason I placed the calipers in the front was to accommodate the e-brake cables. They now faced the wrong way: Since no performance car is complete without a functional turning brake the ebrake cables/brakcets/belcranks had to be reconfigured (lots of rework here too) Once the cables were pointing in the right direction, I needed a fun-lever to pull them. I looked at reusing the stock piece, and as novel as it was being on the left of the driver, I never really got used to it there. I looked at relocating it to the center, but it was too long and would have had to mount basically under the seat to put the handle in reach... So yet another S2000 piece found it's way into the mix. I made a platform mount for it and reworked the lever mounts themselves to obtain an angle/height that works with the trans tunnel: