hmmm, i havent seen my baby (my car) since august, and will prolly get to drive it as soon as xmas.................... when it's raining

i was wondering if it was bad to pull the ebrake when it's raining/pouring during a turn; bad as in bad for the tranny/brakes etc......

i jus wanna make a CALI drift video when i get back from boston...........

sankz all dino

 

Sounds like a good way to crash your car.

Dustin

 

hey dustin

in your avatar, it looks like your teg is grinning. hehe.

 

It is happy, freshly turboed in that picture

Dustin

 

it doesn't do much harm, well on try weather your tires will feel like they are feathering do to the drifting but i have lower and upper rear struts so it's safe for me to bust the E brake....but if you dont know what your doing in the drifts DON'T DO IT I'VE SEEN PEOPLE CRASH INTO POLES!!! You should see my drifting videos are sweet!!!!! i need to learn how to put them on mpeg....

 

You don't know what your car has do you? Lower and upper struts???

 

Yeah well I have rear muffler bearings and crossdrilled brake lines, so I can take corners at 60mph.

 

HAHAHA cross drilled brake lines!! never heard that one! LOL
(this is one of the few times when I really do laugh out loud) good un!

 

Where can I get my brake lines crossdrilled???? I want it done badly...

Ha Ha Ha!!!

 

I'd also be worried about flat spotting the rear tires.

 

practice in an empty parking lot with no barriers, light poles or rogue shopping carts......if you cant control it there you definitely wont be able to control it while driving...i've mastered the art of the e-brake but my jackass friends that try it have hit ****...my friend liked when i did it and we were in the car once with a light layer of snow on the ground (like .3") and he pulled the e-brake, we slammed into one curb...that pointed us at the other curb, we hopped that curb...almost hit a light pole almost hit a tree, drove through two front yards and then back down to the street...this was all turning onto my street...i wanted to strangle him.

 

when i had 3 sets of tires / rims i did this. a lot. I actually would go in wal mart parking lots and take turns at about 8krpms in 2nd gear.... and yank the mofoin ebrake. Another fun thing is going out in the dirt and doing it. BTW: this EATS tires

-sam

 

btw: I hit a boulder once ( i live in az )... it did some severe damage.

-sam

 

It does probally eat tires, but I've done it probally 3 or 4 times over the life of each set of tires I own and they still go for 25k no problem.

I'll admit it's pretty damn fun and not that dangerous if you can control it. I saw someone parallel park using a hand brake turn, so that gives you an idea of the precision that you can do it with. It's easier to pull off in the rain too.

Parking lots are pretty safe, but beware, I got pulled over once for doing a hand brake turn in a mall parking lot. Cops thought I was stealing the car but even when they found out I was the owner, still gave me a ticket for Excessive Acceleration. I was pretty bummed, but the judge told me it wasn't a moving violation and I just had to pay the 50 dollar fine.

 

I do it in GT3 all the time.

Seriously, though, it is fun as hell once you master control of the handbrake turn. It's a very common maneuver in rally racing. If there's any sort of friction-reducing coasting on the ground (i.e. rain, snow, gravel, etc.), it's a snap to do.

Have fun, but be careful. As mentioned above, practice a lot in abandoned parking lots, before trying it on the street.

 

don't know if someone else posted this or not, but you will have to reset your abs after you do that because it will turn your abs light on.

when you lock up the tires, the abs thinks that it needs to go to town and make the tires not be locked, well it tries but since you have the ebrake pulled all it does is pulse the brake pads, and not work to make the tire rotate again, then it decides that it isn't doing its job, and the only way that it can begin doing its job again is to let you know that it isn't doing its job. so the abs light comes on.

you should be able to reset it by pulling the fuse and replacing it.

 

you turn the car on and off. to reset. when your drifting you want abs off any way. or racing for that matter. many pple see this as a benefit and pull the ebrake one click to get the abs light on and thus diabling it. i think it works in hondas.

i dunno i pulled the ebrake all the time in my hatch. now i have negative 2.7 camber on one side and -.9 on the other this pattern is consitant with the way i would generally flip the back end out at. i wonder if the frictiona and hopping after these two years has been enough to bend control arms and produce these camber problems. im not too sure. its possible it might have happened when i ran the curb oh so long ago.

the motions can be come very familiar after a while like second nature. its very challenging.

did you know you can do a standing 180 in stock 96 hatch with the use of the hand brake not unlike the FR domestic boys. i thought it was pimp the first time i did it. the radius was like 10 feet. (it was a very tight radius)

can you still pull ebrake wih big sway bars. mines 22mm i am wondering did seem to work as well.

 

I never noticed that! Cool! Kinda looks like the cartoon cars from the Chevron commercials. hehe!

Dino, as for the original question... I've done it a few times. It may wear on your tires a bit if you do it a lot. You also take the risk of losing it and crashing. And you can wear down your rear brake pads. And you may eventually wear on the e-brake cable. And... so on.

 

Get some skinny hard tires for the rear and it'll be a lot easier to do at low speeds and you can practice doing controlled drifts--wheeee!

 

I used to pull my e-brake all of the time (once in a car chase in the middle of an S turn, that was cool but kinda dumb) And my abs light never came on. I stopped after I took my car in to get my brakes checked and I had like 65% pad wear left on my fronts and only like 20% left on my rears.
Oh yeah, once when there was like five or six inches of snow on the ground, my cousin and I were messing around in a parking lot, when we went to go to my house, I pulled my e-brake going down this hill that was, unbeknownst to me, coverd in ice and ended up hopping a curb (the flat kind) with all four tires and ending up in the front yard of a church almost in a tree as well. When I got out to check the damage (suprisingly there was none! And I was doing like 25!) I had ripped up a huge chunk of grass, and when I went to wipe the snow away from my tire I thought that I had hit a small dog in the process. Never fucked around with a car like that again.