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Old 07-08-2004, 10:47 AM   #1
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Question HELP!? Rear 300ZX parking brake cables?

I did the 300ZX brake swap in the front and the back and the only real problem that I've run into is the parking brake cable. I followed the install that was detailed in the Sport Compact Car magazine and they left alot of important information out, but I managed to figure everything out. In the magazine it says just too run the 300ZX bake cable through the subframe and mount it somewhere and it will reach. Well, that worked well for them because they were working on an S13, but I have an S14 and I don't know if the S14 is different than the S13 or if they just removed the gas tank and forgot to tell everybody, but my car has the gas tank hanging down right were they ran the parking brake cables through. If you look closely in the picture there's no gas tank on their car (S13) where there is one on my car (S14). Anyway, I finally got it to work buy running the stock 240 lines in the stock locations all the way back to the brake. Then I cut the 240 and the 300 cable and clamped and spliced and rigged and did everything I knew how to get them to hold together. Finally, I adjusted the cable up at the parking brake handle until it was nice and tight. O and I adjusted the parking drum brake out as close as I could get it with out rubbing. Yes it does work, but DAMN it looks GETTO AS HELL!! and I don't know how much I trust clamping cable together .... especially in an emergency situation.

Does anyone know of a company or anyone who makes custom parking brake cables for this swap? Or does anyone know of anyplace that I could get to fabricate me up some decent looking parking brake cables? I can live with what I got for now but I'm just not really diggin the Getto Fabulous look.

Thanks in Advance
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