Trial fit the box kit

Let the welding begin...

I decided to grind it smooth...

Nighty-night!

stuff looks nice Eric!

The infamous "Timo" mods performed last weekend...

40mm flat steel welded to the backing plates.

Closer view...

Assembly put back together.

Hey, dont blame me. I am just helping you.....

The parts looks good. Let us know how they works when you have assembled and tested them.

And a big help you were... that would have gone un-noticed.

Thanks again... the mod was simple.

This will probably be the last post on this subject (I can hear the collective sigh of relief). Big thanks to Timo, Brad and others for helping out. I'll try to keep everyone posted on the center mounted handbrake and cables but I'm assuming that will come a bit later as I dig into the body (next).

Bolted everything up this AM for a trial fit and all looks good.

This is the best thread I have followed in ages....The greater technical content the better.

I reckon this qualifies as classic thread status

Very well done and quite inspiring. Yes, a classic thread.

Curious: anybody else do the eBrake conversion and whether there’s an alternative

On my build I used boxster hubs, brakes and e brake hardware. Pics of the trailing arm fab are here in post 50:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...6435&st=40#

Jim I seem to remember a member on here welded on brackets and ran Wilwood handbrake calipers,these are fairly small units and it looked like a tidy solution.
I liked this as another option and possibly easier than the 911 setup which I have.
I found out to my displeasure and expense the PO had fitted this system without the weld on shoe retainers ,went for a drive to test h/brake and demolished the backplate and both shoe retainers and springs on one side ,used parts for these are hardly cheap but atleast I was able to repair the backing plate but was still fairly pissed off.

Jim - yes, FWIW. Done with a Carrera vented rear set up. I used the Tangerine Racing kit for modifying the arms + handbrake cable routing - worked out nicely and retains the stock cables.

- Tony

The tangerine kit is the way to go. Weld on a couple little bits and use your stock cables. It’s already developed so you don’t have to experiment.
That being said, if you have a narrow body four, I would stick with stock rears.

Is their a list of parts when going with the Tangerine Racing system ? Rotors, calipers ?

You need 911 e-brake parts and whatever rotors fit your calipers of choice.

Holy mother of thread necromancy!


Almost 20 years ...

Is the square bolt pattern on the backing plates the same for all pre-1989 non-turbo 911s?

I believe so.

Glad you said it, I was thinking the same thing

The late Wes Hildreth did this for a 914 owner named Mike Floyd ( @old914dog ). It did not work out well. Setting the park brake with the rotors hot resulted in the pads sticking to the rotors, and it took a hammer and some pounding to get the park brake to release.

The 911 style park brake is the way to go.

Any info on the Wilwood electric parking brake kit ?
https://www.wilwood.com/Calipers/CaliperLis...Parking%20Brake