So heres what I want to do. I have a 97 Accord Ex with ABS that ive turned into a derby car. After taking some significant hits and rear damage, I'm changing to run solid small fork lift tires on the rear of the car. In order for clearance I have to remove the rear brake assemblies. Now I still want to have brakes on the front of the car for when I'm just moving it around. The easy solution is to just cap off the rear brake lines but here is the kicker...the ABS unit on the front left corner of the car doesnt allow much clearance in that area with the power steering pump and I've had it get pushed in shredding my belts and even bending my power steering pump pulley....so what I'm wanting to do is remove the ABS system from the engine bay in its entirety and only have brakes on the front wheels. Can anyone point me in the right direction on the easiest way to do this.

and before anyone bashes me for turning this honda into a derby car, I got it for free with 350,000 miles on it, leaking fuel lines, no title, and the floor you can see thru in places...id rather enjoy the sport of the car than to just see it shipped to scrap when it still serves a purpose.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

You may be able to make new brake lines tight from the master cylinder to the front wheels and block off the rears at the proportioning valves.

 

Hmmm...so to disable the ABS you just pull the ABS fuse. I would think that you could simply remove the rear shoes or pinch off the rear lines to disable them. They are just drums anyway, no? There cannot be much pressure against them?

I think it's great you are having fun. I used to do smash-up derbys at a place near where i lived. my friends and i would pool our money and would pick up cars from the local junk yard, get them to barely run and then destroy them. At the end, the tow truck would come by, pay us $50 to take the car, and they would take it back to the junkyard.

 

he wants to remove the abs valve to save his belts.
and its an ex. I believe it has disk in the rear.
if i where doing it i would cut the abs out along with the lines. Making new lines is not hard to the front. can be simple if you go over the top of the fire wall. On the rear block it off as you said. the proportioning valve is hard to get to when the car is not smashed, like i said.
pull the disk and caliper add the appropriate washers to make up for the spacing of the rotor or cut the brake part of the disk off.
not sure if yours is captive rotor but you could do it with the rotor still on the car.
I guess that is how i would do it.