brake calipers with parking brake

[ORANGECRUSHer]

Just wondered if anyone had any idea what vehicles used a rear brake caliper with a cable parking brake actuator that I might be able to find off a salvage vehicle in a yard? I'm not interested in kit calipers unless you can get a pair for under $150 and they work.

I happen to have two cars so far. Nissan Sentra and mid-eighties Cadillacs.

Hoping to increase my odds of finding something in the crappy yards around me..
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[Hamsterben]

The Porsche 914 has a cable parking brake. Try camp 914 they are in Oregon when I worked there we had a box full of rear calipers. http://www.camp914.com/

[Steve Arndt]

914 rear calipers are very expensive.

The rear brake kits use jetta type rear brake calipers. Late 80s to late 90s type vw cars use them. Very common parts.

[tripicana]

Porsche 944 non aluminum trailing arm discs are a direct bolt on to type1 trailing arms. They are in the junkyard all the time, cable parking brake too.
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[doom buggy]

94-04 ford mustangs,usually pleanty in the u-pull it yards to be had cheap.,v-6 or v-8 cars have them.
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[wbrown45]

The second generation Ford Taurus upper level models had disc brakes on the rear until 2000. They are made by Varga. I used a set on my son's Baja and with a little tweaking they fit into the same brackets as Ghia calipers.
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OK Thang

[ORANGECRUSHer]

You gave me a lot more response than Ii thought I'd get, thanks

I've already bought some non-vented rotors and with my Avery's trailing arms I can not use a caliper bracket made for VWs - I'll have to custom fab my own from what ever comes with whatever caliper I end up getting.

The mustang or taurus units are prolly the most likely to be found in my parts.

thanks again for the suggestions and ideas..
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LAZY MARY 1970 Baja 1835cc

[ORANGECRUSHer]

Inspired to keep looking I found some Audi S4 calipers on Amazon for $38/pair. Of course being Amazon they only had the driver side on sale, so I'll be working with two left side calipers. Doesn't really matter considering what I'm doing.
party on
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OrangeCrushER Berrien Warrior 2.4L Quad4
LAZY MARY 1970 Baja 1835cc

[Steve Arndt]

[ORANGECRUSHer]

yeah screw the drum set-up. I want simple. not shoes and springs shoved in a tight space.
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[no1clyde]

I had a few older Subaru cars that had front disk breaks with cable parking brakes also.

Ed

[no1clyde]

Also my Dodge Stealth has 4 wheel disc brakes and a parking brake but it has been such a good car I have not had to work on the brakes LOL.

Ed

[ORANGECRUSHer]

I think stealths have the drum in rotor arrangement because the rear calipers have no provision for a cable that I saw.
I spent at least an hour going through all the makes on Rock Auto's sight checking out pictures of rear calipers. Ugh!
I hope the audi calipers work though. I went for them first because they were less than $20 a piece, second they came with mounting brackets, and finally because they are not bulky and the parking lever looks like it could easily be reworked to accept what ever cable I choose coming from any direction. I may need to make a spacer to put behind a pad; I'm not sure yet if these are used with vented rotors which are thicker, but I'd guess they are.
Now I just have to poke some studs into my rotors and I'm in business!
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OrangeCrushER Berrien Warrior 2.4L Quad4
LAZY MARY 1970 Baja 1835cc

[heywebonya]

Ressurecting an old thread, did you complete the build of the audi disc brake build?

Any pictures?

Thank you
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[mattfarmer]

I've been trying to figure out what to do for an ebrake/parking brake... My baja has the 3x3 empi micro stub kit w/ wilwood 4 piston brakes from Pacific Customs, I didn't know it when I bought them, but there's no ebrake attachment for it that they sell. So far the only ideas I have are the Empi hydraulic park lock (not very good), and making my own cable ebrake with a wilwood Spot brake that kart racers use.

[firehorse02]

My rail has a line lock, haven't had any issues yet

[ORANGECRUSHer]

Sorry, I've been busy as hell lately.
I finished fabbing the audi calipers onto my trailing arms and they work. My rig is still in the final assembly stages so I haven't had any real world testing on them. I encourage people to do some research and find a better caliper to use than this audi caliper. The audi is made for a vented rotor so it's too wide for any rotor made to work on the VW. I modified the brake pad bracket so there was more travel for the pad to reach my rotor and I have to double up pads on one side of the caliper to take up the space. In my case I don't see a problem with that but it's a trade-off I've made to make my experiment work. Someone who looks at it may think it's kinda wacky to have two pads stacked up if they don't understand I was making $16 calipers fit my application.
As far as the e-brake side of it, I did not get into working on that because my build is getting long in the tooth. I can always fashion some cables to work later. In hindsight, I don't think e-brake is worth the effort unless maybe you live someplace like San Fransisco.
I think I need to play with master cylinder sizing. The 3/4" seemed to have too much throw so I might go to the next size down.
As for the line lock, I just picked one up for my baja the other day just haven't felt like plumbing it in yet.
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LAZY MARY 1970 Baja 1835cc

[TDCTDI]

Any '98 to '05 golf, Jetta, beetle has nice light weight aluminum calipers with a parking brake actuator.

Just be sure to grab the caliper bracket too (8mm Allen sockets.).
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[ORANGECRUSHer]

That looks similar to the audi. I take it it's a solid rotor type?
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[TDCTDI]

Yes sir. & they'd be very compatible with 914 rotors. The first pic is one from a Jetta, the second pic is one mounted to a '05 Passat, so '98-05 passats are a source also. Earlier golfs, jettas, & passats are also viable but they will be iron.
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GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.