Mechanical Spot Caliper

[Sentinel]

Anyone know a decent local source?

[FieroDough]

Nope, but I may know a source for a mechinic who may overlook the absence of one.

[cowans]

If I understand your question correctly, I would assume you are looking for an alternative handbrake. If so, I believe a late 70's FRD Riviera had this as a singular floating caliper on the rears.
just a thought!
Sandy

[Sentinel]

That right, like the extra braking power, but really don't like trusting the car staying put on the engine compression. I'll look into to, thanks

[JetJumper]

Mine holds on The compression pretty good.    My E-Brake works...but everytime you use it, to disable it, you have to go and pull the cables in the back, So I just don't use it.

[FieroDough]

This spot caliper, were does it mount? I've seen people wels a "disk" on one axle and a caliper. But the axle also moves up and down with the suspention.. so I doupt that will work.

[cowans]

There is another thought to this. There is a unit much like a line-lock but doesn't require voltage to enable/hold it. The unit goes by the name 'JAMAR BRAKE LOCK' and I used this until Ontario Transport decided differently! I just mounted the unit where the Fiero Handbrake was and routed the rear brake line up & back. The unit basically works like this.... Pull on the Jamar knob, depress brake pedal once, brake(line-lock) is set! Press on the Jamar, the 'line-lock' releases... I have since given the Jamar unit to a friend in PEI. The reason Ont Transport failed this is that "There is required to be a secondary braking device on a motor vehicle" and this unit was tapping into the 1st system!
Sandy
Sandy

[fiero308]

Wilwood makes one; just for that purpose.  My impression is that it satisfies the legal requirement; no idea of how effective it is beyond that.
We now know of a few 'local' suppliers of Wilwood so I have already emailed a request as I was asking about a few other things too.
will let you know what Ifind out