November 11, 201213 yr Author Guess who has rear e-brakes on his Brat? This guy does. Just need a handle now!
November 14, 201213 yr Author Well I've been driving around on the justy brakes for a few days now and I can't feel a difference at all, they seem to be working great! Hopefully I can get a handle sorted out soon. I'll get a pic of the underside of the hitch when the rain clears up
November 16, 201213 yr Author Picked up a toyota corolla handbrake assembly, looks like it should work great. Cutting a hole for it this weekend.
December 30, 201213 yr Author Moving to Vancouver BC in 2 days, got her all ready to go I think. Decided to put cats in to make sure it passes smog, and she actually runs quite a bit smoother now. I think the twin 1 3/4" pipes were a bit too much. Needed a bit more restriction to keep exhaust velocity up.
December 31, 201213 yr Author I can't really think of any practical way to do that without lifting at least 6 inches, or putting a cell in the bed.
December 31, 201213 yr I have a wagon. 6 inch lift is plausible. i believe someone on here put a small second tank under the carpet the carpet on one(i cant remember if there is a little spot that goes down in the back or not because im more into brats). but if it were a brat you could have a second tank up close to the cab under the bed.
January 30, 201313 yr Author I moved to Vancouver, BC at the beginning of the year, so I had to take the Brat through emissions testing. I installed cats, and after discovering I had the wrong MAF I passed with flying colours, 0% CO and HC was 10x below the limit The guy testing just stood at stared at the report for a minute before he handed it to me. I wasn't obliged to inform them that it had a swapped motor
February 1, 201313 yr what winch do you have and did you have to install a second alternator or do you have something other than stock? I really wanna put a winch on mine. also did you fab the winch mount your self, and could i see a pic?
February 3, 201313 yr Author I have pics of the alternator somewhere in this thread, it's a 185amp alternator from an ambulance. Winch is mounted directly to the bumper Went ice racing yesterday, was a blast but really didn't do very well :-\
November 25, 201510 yr That parking brake set up is amazing splinter nice work ! nice to see your back on it again
November 27, 201510 yr Author Thanks! I had an incident camping in the summer which caused the destruction of my tailgate, so I started on a new one of those as well. But of course, now that winter is settling in I'm getting back to the problem which I should have dealt with in the summer but didn't. The car NEVER gets up to operating temp. Unless it's under massive load or idling for a long long time in hot weather. I have the radiator completely blocked off with aluminum sheet metal, but it still sits around 60C. Which makes the already feeble heater basically useless. Tried two OEM thermostats with no difference. Weirdest problem.
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