Hand Brake Set Up On An R32 Skyline.

[rsx84]

looking to get an idea on how the hand brake works at the calipar on an r32 skyline.

basically wanting to see what needed to be done to get it working on an r31 skyline...

things like:

is it cable or some other system?

is it a part of the calipar?

Cheers, Matt...

Edited September 9, 2006 by rsx84

[ISC-Performance]

r32 is a cable set up handbrake

[salad]

seperate drum handbrake

[foznice]

Yep as Salad said.. if you look closely at the rear rotors, you'll notice that they have drums at the front of the rotor.. inside is the handbrake, which is connected by cable.

[Sick_R31]

well the first thing you need to find out is the hole in the centre of the drum brake have a greater diameter than 72mm? the yellow line is the hole you need to measure, note that is a HR31 drumbrake not a R32 drumbrake

if it isn't greater than 72mm it won't fit on your diff so back to square one and try and find something else. once you find a suitable drumbrake next question do you own/have access a band saw with a metal band on it, MIG welder and have all the parts needed ie drumbrake, calipers and rotors? if not then you will need an engineer to do all this and it will cost lots of $$$, or if you are in brisbane i am half way through putting HR31 drumbrakes and R32 GTR calipers on the rear of my R31, so you can drop around and see what has to be done.

to bolt up the drumbrake will require you to cut the bracket off that holds the axle to the diff and make 2 new brackets, 1 for the drumbrake to mount onto the diff and the other 1 for the R32 GTR caliper to mount onto also you can't use the R31 caliper mount as it has a caliper spacing of 100mm and the R32 GTR caliper has a spacing of 117mm.

[T04GTR]

hmm. welcome to the headache of doing a brake conversion on the cheap.

i feel your pain.

sory not to much info on 31's

[rsx84]

thanks for the info guys, the reason i ask is i got the rear brakes and rotors as a package when i bought the fronts, been specking to a bloke from the ozdat forum, he offers a package for the datto 1600 for around $600 so thought id look into what can be done for the r31, with the package they offer they have a seperate handbrake system, have a look....

http://datsport.com/Datsun_510_R32_rear_di...nversion_A.html

this would be more of an option for the HR30/31 with the IRS rear end i'd say..

Edited September 10, 2006 by rsx84