[DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side
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Sat Aug 29 15:05:23 EDT 2015
Moving the e-brake handle is possible but it takes extra parts, requires a new cut in the floor and the existing one welded up, and a host of geometry problems to be solved. The original e-brake will hold your car on some hills if adjusted properly and may be more of a function of the calipers than the handle placement. If I was going to do this for some reason, I would mount the handle on the left (drivers) rocker panel using Porsche 914 or Fiero parts & cables, which are certainly going to be cheaper than buying GT-5 parts to move the handle to the other side of the console. Either way would be a fairly large job with the entire cabin gutted to do the work.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net>
To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Sat, Aug 29, 2015 8:13 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side
As part of my restoration planning, I've been coming up with a short list
of
mods that I could have done that "just make sense". Why they located
the
e-brake handle on the far side of the console where it's not that easy
to
reach has always been a puzzle to me - probably a seat clearance
issue.
Don't the later cars, GT5-S, have the brake on the driver's side of
the
console?
Since I'm going to have the car down to a bare shell at that
point, I can't
think it would be that hard to re-engineer it to the other side
with
everything out of the way: some fabrication work and reverse the
hardware
under the car. Has anybody done such a mod?
Mike Thomas
Pres.,
Panteras Northwest
Yellow '74
#6328
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Moving the e-brake handle is possible but it takes extra parts,
requires a new cut in the floor and the existing one welded up, and a
host of geometry problems to be solved. The original e-brake will hold
your car on some hills if adjusted properly and may be more of a
function of the calipers than the handle placement. If I was going to
do this for some reason, I would mount the handle on the left
(drivers) rocker panel using Porsche 914 or Fiero parts & cables, which
are certainly going to be cheaper than buying GT-5 parts to move the
handle to the other side of the console. Either way would be a fairly
large job with the entire cabin gutted to do the work.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net>
To: detomaso <detomaso at poca.com>
Sent: Sat, Aug 29, 2015 8:13 am
Subject: [DeTomaso] Moving the E-brake handle to the driver's side
As part of my restoration planning, I've been coming up with a short list
of
mods that I could have done that "just make sense". Why they located
the
e-brake handle on the far side of the console where it's not that easy
to
reach has always been a puzzle to me - probably a seat clearance
issue.
Don't the later cars, GT5-S, have the brake on the driver's side of
the
console?
Since I'm going to have the car down to a bare shell at that
point, I can't
think it would be that hard to re-engineer it to the other side
with
everything out of the way: some fabrication work and reverse the
hardware
under the car. Has anybody done such a mod?
Mike Thomas
Pres.,
Panteras Northwest
Yellow '74
#6328
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