Editing Hydraulic Handbrake (section)

==Dodgy Dave’s Method==
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A family friend of mine gave me a hydraulic handbrake that he was going to put in his rally car back when I first bought the 31 so I pulled it out of the garage and to my surprise, it was a full kit produced by Heritage Engineering, the same one used by DRIFT 31 in the Wiki article.

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It came with everything I needed to make it super easy like some short lengths of braided line and a 5/8th master cylinder made for R31Rs

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First step was to figure out where I wanted it and how to mount it. The trans tunnel is nice and beefy but the tailshaft runs pretty close to it so I decided on some nutserts that Dad had in the garage. It seems sturdy enough but if it turns out to be an issue, I'll work something else out.

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Next step was to get under the car and unpick the line as described in the wiki. As I said before, the room in the trans tunnel is pretty tight and with it all in front of me I thought of a way to do it that, in my opinion anyway, is much easier than described in the wiki. Instead of unpicking the line all the way up to the midpoint of the car I simply disconnected it from the diff, undid two brackets, bent it to the back of the driver's side rear footwell and ran it through a hole into the cabin made as close to the tunnel as possible. 

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Anyway, in the cabin the line proved to be the perfect length, easily reaching within the length of the braided line. Here you can see it plugged off by some random VW part that Dad pulled out of the garage to help as with pretty much everything done on this car.

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This is the point where you would whip out the flaring tool like in the wiki but since I didn't have one, I headed to the local brake shop (Brabond Brakes, good blokes) and got a new 900mm long hard line made up to go from the master cylinder back to the diff.

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I also got this little fella so I could leave the fitting on the original brake line and just screw it into the braided line.

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Like so

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I plumbed it all up, being sure to keep the lines as close to the tunnel as possible so that rear passengers wouldn't kick them, and then put carpet and back seat back in.

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A quick hit with the vacuum bleeder and a couple of foot bleeds of the rear brakes and it is mint, locking easily.

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I'm really happy with how it's turned out. Not only did we knock this over in half a day but it works heaps better than I was expecting when I remembered some sort of hydro sitting in the garage.

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And to top it all off, underneath the carpet I found crazy stashes of cash that added up to just shy of $15

Score!