SporacingrtsHydraulic Handbrake Drift E-Brake Handle Parking Emergency Brake Lever Universal Compatible with Racing Cars

Installed in my 57' Chevy truck as a parking brake. The line fittings were a little odd, but worked around that by switching the master cylinder to a Wildwood. Worked out perfectly, several adjustments to make it mount and feel right. Pretty nice, I like it, and my truck won't roll on a hill.

It works great for the reason I need the brake. The parking brake feature is exactly what I needed.

Nice handle. High strength. Note it can be reconfigured to get the handle closer to floor such as in use with '32 Ford. Can also rotate the cylinder 180 degrees to point the connections down for easier pipe routing through your rods floor. Can also flip the locking catch over to drivers side that makes more sense, imho. NOTE: Read the diagrams closely to note the odd line fitting - the larger one really is 7/16 x 20 threading, NOT 7/16 x 24 you would expect. The 7/16 x 20 is not a common item to find at local parts store. But Amazon has them for both the 3/16" and 1/4" brake lines. $30 total, plus $20 (faster shipping), gets a bag of each size.

After over a month of messing with this thing, bleeding my brakes dozens of times, I finally realized that this thing has been sucking air through the hand brake the whole time. Complete pile. And now it’s to late to return. You get what you pay for

Like everyone else, it took a good long time to figure out what type of hydraulic brake fittings this thing uses. Well here it is:1) The input is a nonstandard 7/16-20 female inverted flare for 1/4" hydraulic brake line. Standard USA 1/4" hydraulic brake lines have 7/16-24 male inverted flares attached to the ends, so this a big WTF. Ok, maybe race cars use these fittings, I do not know...Anyway Inline Tube on eBay (seller: motorcitymusclecar) has the adapter you need, namely they call it "7/16-20 Inverted Flare Tube Nut Fitting For 1/4 Brake Line Tubing Gold Zinc Ford" If this was not bad enough, the threads were not cleaning machined, so this adapter would not thread in! I had to use a bottom tap to rethread in the input port, while carefully not damaging the inverted flare surface at the bottom. I was successful, But what a pain! You still need to adapter the 1/4" line to 3/16" line, so more adapters are needed.2) The output is a 3AN female another WTF. This hand brake is supposedly marketed to splice into the hydraulic brake loop in normal cars, WHICH are typically 3/16" diameter with 3/8-24 male inverted flare fitting...NOT AN #3 fittings. Again Inline Tube on eBay has the adapter you need, called 'Brake Line Fitting Adapter -3An Male To 3/8-24 Female Sae For 3/16 Hlf01 1Pc". The threads on this port were machined properly thankfully. Why the hand brake does not come with the adapters need, I'll never know.Now the big question, does the damn thing even work? We will see. In the future, I will likely replace the master cylinder with a Wilwood GS Compact Remote Master Cylinder to have confidence I had brakes when I need them. Lessons learned and Buyer be ware. M89 Male To 3/8'-24 Female Inverted Flare 3/16" Brake Line

Definitely like that someone makes these now, use to be a huge pain in the butt making one from stuff that's not ment for it.

Very hard to get the right set up for the lines, I did get all the parts through Amazon though and took a few weeks. I could not do 3/16 brake line to 7/16-20 anywhere but I did 7/16 banjo fitting to AN4 and 3/8 banjo to AN3 lines then to 3/16 brake line. You can see in the photos . I did add 90’s fittings to lay the lines flat. The 7/16 banjo bolt was too long I had to cut off 5/16ths , I had a die on it to clean up the threads. They should offer an installation kit to make this easier for us non brake line guys, I am now though. That’s why the three stars also no issues with bleeding for me. Found another issue, the pressure would not release off the brake and the problem was the adjustment rod is too long, to get it to work properly I had to remove the jam nut off the adjustment rod to allow the pressure to release. I’m too far into this to swap it out. I guess I’m about $150 in total on the install, looks kool, works like it should now. Mostly installed to use as emergency brake but kind of wished now I spent $320 and got the wilwood brake to lock up rear individually. Now I have driven with it for some time, unless you Arnold (get to the chopper!) the hydraulic advantage is not there, I used rivnuts to mount, mistake because the force it takes flex’s the tunnel metal, needs to be reinforced (but I would assume any hand brake would need it) still it gets plenty of wow’s from people.

Not bad for Price, decided to swap out the master cylinder for a Wilwood one, looks much better.