[wastegate]

Hi has anybody done one?

I have heard of the ebrake system but I cannot find details of cost or supplier?

many thanks for any help

[Irelands child]

Anything but a mechanical may be illegal in your state. Even Total Performance offered a hydraulic version - which they finally made into a mechanical after it was proven to be illegal in most states.

The electric parking brake was actually hydraulic, actuated by holding the regular brake down fairly hard, the flipping a switch for an inline electric solenoid. The last one I personally saw was in the late '50s- early '60s

[wastegate]

We are allowed to use an electrial device to pull on the existing manual cables.

I have seen a few examples of actuators but cannot seem to find a supplier.

[Deuce]

The newer Cadillac CTS models with the supercharger have this one. $250 or so @ the Cadillac dealership.

[ogre]

thanks for posting that one deuce.
i may have to look into it for truk

[Joe G]

I installed an electric parking brake actuator in a car a while back. I'm not sure what the brand name of the system was, but I got it from a local company that rigs vans for handicapped drivers. It worked great, but it was about $800, and when I opened it up to see how it worked, it was just a modified GM window regulator.

Hope this helps.....

[wayne gillis]

I just returned from a cross country trip in a buick locrose, to put on the park brake you have to flip a switch , to release the brake ,flip another switch, also when you put in reverse the mirrors adjust to help with parking , I'd check with Gm dealers.

[enjenjo]

How about one of these http://www.surpluscenter.com/item.as...tname=electric

[matt167]

Electric parking break is also standard on the new Subaru Legacy. Hit the brakes, and flip the switch to lock and unlock them

[jmill]

The Push Button E-Brake
This company won product of the year at the NSRA nationals. It comes with everything in a compact design (important for small chassis). It's msrp is $449 only about $80 more than some of the foot pedal systems. Plus it's all regulated by a micro computer so it won't keep pulling and rip up your brake system. Worth checking out.

[farna]

The surplus actuator looks good! That's what the E-stop company is using, or something similar. They just have a limiting circuit. The "microcomputer" is probably a BASIC Stamp or Arduino board with some type of strain gauge -- probably measures current draw of the actuator. Simple -- motor starts to strain and draw more amps, computer cuts it off. Not sure if that's how they do it, but has to be something like that. They might have a more complicated and costly way to do it.

With a 4" stroke actuator you would need something to prevent pulling too hard and frying the actuator or wiring to it, or pulling something loose. A simple limit switch would work, but would need adjusting on occasion. I know the brake cable needs some travel, but 4" sounds excessive. I don't think the cable actually pulls but maybe an inch. The pedal or pull handle travels more, but they are made to have more leverage so they don't require a lot of effort to set the brake. There are several 1.5"-2.25" actuators on the surplus site (Surplus Center) that would work and are pretty cheap. A few are electric seat motors. No pull rating, but they move my *** and seat along just fine, I'm sure they would pull a park brake cable hard enough! I like the 1.5" 250 lb rated actuator for this application, if a 1.5" pull is enough.