Jim85IROC

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There are a few different ways that guys on here have chosen to get functional e-brakes on their LS1 rear brake swap.

My solution is a bit different than I've seen others do, so I figured I'd post it up. One nice thing about mine is that there is absolutely no welding required for the e-brake installation.

What I did was to make a new set of cables that's essentially a hybrid of the stock thirdgen cables and the stock 4th gen cables.

On the driver side I found that the stock thirdgen cable was the correct length to work with the LS1 e-brakes, but obviously the cable end wouldn't attach to the LS1 lever. This can be fixed in a couple ways. In my first attached pic you can see where I just used a u-clamp to hold it onto the caliper lever. You can also see that I used the stock 4th gen e-brake cable bracket, except that I drilled a new hole in a different spot to give the cable a straighter shot toward the caliper lever. This cable attachment will probably work, but I chose another method.

I bought some cable clamps and decided to cut the stock e-brake cable, as well as cut a stock LS1 cable. I ran the 4th gen cable through the thirdgen outer sheath, and connected a length of the third gen cable onto the end that sits up in the trans tunnel. This allowed me to use the stock brackets up in the trans tunnel as well as use the LS1 calipers unmodified. These clamps are available almost anywhere, but I'm really not sure where others can get the proper crimpers. I was lucky that a local supply company had a set that they could loan me. In picture 2 you can see the clamps that I'm referring to, and you can see the crimpers in picture 3. This results in an exceptionally strong bond, and I would bet that the cable would break before it could pull out of this clamp. In picture 4 you can see the cable with 2 clamps holding the individual pieces together.

The passenger side was a slightly different process. The stock thirdgen cable was too short to wrap all the way around to the back side of the caliper, but the longer 4th gen cable was a good fit, except that the amount of cable coming out of the housing toward the trans tunnel was too short. So, I cut the thirdgen cable section and added it to the 4th gen cable using the same procedure. I was able to route the passenger side cable through the stock bracket that's bolted to the wheel well, except that I turned the bracket about 90 degrees like you can see in picture 5. I then routed the cable over the axle and under the panhard rod and around to the modified 4th gen bracket that's bolted to my LCA bracket just like on the other side.

One thing to consider if you decide to do this swap is that you can buy the u-bolt style cable clamps, which are a great idea to use at first to determine how much cable length you need up under the car. Once you get that adjusted to your liking, you can mark the cable and then use the crimp style clamps that I've got.

In the near future I'll post a tech article with pictures of the complete brake swap including my finished up brackets and all of that, but I'm having issues getting the files uploaded, so in the meantime I figured I'd post this. Hopefully it'll help somebody.

Jim85IROC

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Pics 4 and 5 attached to this post.

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thats pretty much what i did, except i welded the cables together. Works great

Timothayyy

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Interesting, Do you have any pictures of under the center of the car? Where the 2 cables connect into 1, that would be the most help to me.
Thanks

Jim85IROC

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I'll try to get some pics tonight, but that all looks the same as stock.

Timothayyy

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Alright, then I get what you did. I was just wondering if anything over there was changed.

Zepher

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Well, that is one way to do it.
I used stock 91/92 Camaro cables and basically used the u-style clamp right at the equalizer to take up the slack.
the 91/92 cables I used have the same type of end as the LS1 caliper, you just have to open it up with a dremel slightly.

Jim85IROC

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There appears to be a number of options for getting them to work. Mine is just another alternative. Mine appealed to me because it basically allowed me to use parts I already had, and anybody who harvests these parts of a 4th gen will wind up with the same parts.