944 e brake

[Steve C]

Hi

I’m disappointed with my 944 e brake, it doesn’t hold very well on hills and wont stop the car if I pull it on. What have others found? I used the e brake linings that came with the arms, they looked OK, should I buy new linings.

Steve C

What did you use to adapt the cables? Do they pull all the way?

[Steve C]

Hi James

I bolted the VW cable straight to the Porsche lever, I cut the Porsche tubes down and welded a sleeve on to keep the VW outer inplace. I have attached a pic but it was taken before I welded the sleeve on.

Steve C

[Alex]

The beetle cable are too long for 944 e-brakes. You might have to shorten them or get adapter sleeves that sit between the chassis holes for the e-brake cables and the cable itself that will shorten the cable this way so it does not need to be cut.

Alex

[MattKab]

I've been thinking this over lately. The handbrake brake assembly shares it's existence in the BMW too as you know. It's only ever referred to as a parking brake in the manuals. But if their cars brakes, suffered total hyrdraulic failure, I bet they could pull-up with more confidence than us. Well me anyway. The handbrake applied braking energy is massively greater on the stock Bug than the somewhat puny Porsche set up- you agree?

My hanbrake is sweet, even on hills so it's only worth sharing my thoughts....

The input (profile of the cam at bottom of the handbrake cable) is not 'best suited' to the differential load response of the shoe spreader.

A much closer look at the geometry might turn something up. I suggest a handbrake lever, modified to compensate for the non tangentiality, for want of a better word, and maybe make an OEM cable be best fit?

Matt