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@wrkinprogress "where it belongs" in a speedster would be umbrella under the dash, and even Porsche stopped doing that because the geometry in our cars sucks for that type of hand brake.  It works, but not great.  "where it belongs" (as far as Im concerned) as a general automobile, is between the seats, and I too was taught to use them as hill assist, but so many don't want to see the tell-tale hand brake on a replica.  Fortunately it's easy to do either way so someone could request it either way and it's all the same to me.  Plus with the standalone pedal in our speedster/coupe, heel-toe is very easy and I can hill assist that way almost as easily.

@IaM-Ray I am on the fence about it. For someone who doesn't want to see a hand brake and wants something that functions better than the umbrella, its a good solution, but not without its drawbacks too.

@LI-Rick yes and it would take a different upright/spindle to integrate it (we looked at it for the 904 also) so we were looking at roughly $2k in upright changes and then a little over $1K for the wildwood set-up, so $3k in e-brakes didn't make sense.  this solution isn't cheap ($500 plus a few hours labor) but was the better choice for us...

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