Is the E-brake like in real life?

[Mad Murphy NZ]

LOL. gotta have that electric sunroof. If you soak the bald tyres in diesel.. It also works a treat.

Lets not forget the steam from the blown radiator hose!

 

[~Sp33~]

lol, and the coat-hanger antenna?

 

[Mad Murphy NZ]

lol, and the coat-hanger antenna?

Nah, didn't have a radio - or numberplates - or very much in the way of brakes. Which is great fun when you go rallying on gravel roads at high speed.

 

[~Sp33~]

who said it had a radio?...lol~!...

it must also have a milo tin exhaust

 

[Dr_Watson]

sounds like the same chevette some friends of mine put a rollcage (made from steel guardrail) in and rolled down a hill until it wouldn't climb it again. good 'ol country fun.

 

[Mad Matt]

I had a Renault 18 auto which my wife put into reverse at 40mph. It tried to do it and there was smoke from the tires before she realised what she'd done and put it back into drive.

I think we had the car another year before we sold it!

 

[sideslider]

It's much more fun to do it the other way round though! Drive in reverse then shift to first - nothing makes smoke quite like a reverse standy on a patch of diesel. Especially if it's in a $60 car with bald tyres and an electric sun roof.

lol This is great I had a buddy in highschool that attempted to trik out his chrysler lebaron and he started trying to show off by putting on his e-brake reving the engine in neutral and droping the tranny into drive...this would roduce a pathetic burn out. he actually managed to do this a hand full of times before his car stoped shifting into reverse !!!

 

[Mad Murphy NZ]

sounds like the same chevette some friends of mine put a rollcage (made from steel guardrail) in and rolled down a hill until it wouldn't climb it again. good 'ol country fun.

Ours was a Ford Laser 1500, the good one with fuel injection and a 5spd. My mate has heaps of Lasers and Mazda 323s at his house.

 

[~Sp33~]

you should probably tell him to start collecting something more worthwhile.. Like coathanger antennas

 

[Mad Murphy NZ]

Wahh, Lasers rule man. I love his old TX3, it goes so damn hard and does mean skids. Besides, he has an S14 Silvia and his brother has a S/C Levin and a Sileighty. So it's not all bogan old buckets.

 

[~Sp33~]

lol, na na its kewl, i wasnt mocking them. Theyre a good car, i just thought it was amusing that he had heaps of he bastards. You would think that one is enough . Its not like theyre ever going to appreciate in value. Theyll melt to a pool of rust before that happens,

hehehe

 

[niky]

TX3's Roxxor... I wish we had gotten one instead of the crappy 1.3l hatch we had back then... still loved that Laser, even if it was a little slow...

 

[~Sp33~]

those nissan sunny taxi's that you have over there rock hard \M/

 

[niky]

You should see the taxis with SR20DET swaps... ...know at least one guy is running a DET in a Sunny pick-up.

 

[~Sp33~]

lol, i didnt know he sunny came in a pickup.

I dare say it would be an ugly thing.lol

 

[Mad Murphy NZ]

TX3's Roxxor... I wish we had gotten one instead of the crappy 1.3l hatch we had back then... still loved that Laser, even if it was a little slow...

The 1500 sports are alright performance (they are the shape before the one that came out with TX3's). We drag raced it against my 2.0 Corona and it kept up until about 120kmh when my car hit some good power in 3rd. bearing in mind too that the Laser had unknown K's (we would assume 200-300,000km) it did bloody well.

 

[~Sp33~]

corona, what a terrible car. Back in the 80's when innovation was a foriegn word in the automotive industry, they managed to form as many types of brown and beige as possible. These ideas, along with excess amount of tweed interior lining, formed to create the Corona.

That car could cure insomnia lol.

 

[Epinionator89]

I think people have assumed that when you grab the parking brake in GT4, all the cars seem to go into "Neutral". However, it's only the cars where the rear wheels are being driven where it actually happens (rear-, 4- and all-wheel-drive). On front-wheel-drive vehicles, the transmission doesn't go out of gear when the brake is engaged. I think this is because stalling the cars weren't implemented in the game, and if you have a vehicle driving the real wheels suddenly lock up said tires, you'd stall the vehicle in real life (unless you put the car in neutral of course and then did it).

 

[Dr_Watson]

most people i know just push in the clutch before they yank the handle.

 

[rsmithdrift]

most people i know just push in the clutch before they yank the handle.

Yeah, I forgot to do that once in my Z, and it stalled untill I put the "E" back down. Then the car started again. You know, if you are moving in gear with the ignition on and let out the clutch, or let the rear wheels roll, the car will start. So you don't have to put in the clutch, but it's hard on the drive train if you don't, so don't forget. Also, shift-lock (cannot be done in GT4) is also hard on the driveline, so only do that in the rain.

 

[Dr_Watson]

yeah, the method I use when having fun in a wet/snowy parking lot is:
1. clutch
2. grab the gear i want to pull out in (normally 2nd)
3. crank wheel
4. pull and drop handle
5. let out clutch
6. drive out of donut / drift

i say normally 2nd, because sometimes its fun to do a 180 or 540 and come out in reverse.
^^ this is probably the only e-brake fun thats harder in an AT.

 

[sideslider]

Yeah, I forgot to do that once in my Z, and it stalled untill I put the "E" back down. Then the car started again. You know, if you are moving in gear with the ignition on and let out the clutch, or let the rear wheels roll, the car will start. So you don't have to put in the clutch, but it's hard on the drive train if you don't, so don't forget. Also, shift-lock (cannot be done in GT4) is also hard on the driveline, so only do that in the rain.

I've done shift locks in gt4....IE... just before entering a corner swurv opposite the corner then into the corner (to upset the wieght) then shift down and floor it... the rest is a drift...
cl ck

EDIT: ok so I was goofin around with the shift lock thing and I tried going into the corner and using the e-brake to initiate the drift and down shifting to pull out... If you hit the e-brake and downshift at the same time while going into a corner it puts you in the sweet spot of the lower gear after the e-brake clutch lets up...try it and let me know what you think

 

[rsmithdrift]

I've done shift locks in gt4....IE... just before entering a corner swurv opposite the corner then into the corner (to upset the wieght) then shift down and floor it... the rest is a drift...
cl ck

EDIT: ok so I was goofin around with the shift lock thing and I tried going into the corner and using the e-brake to initiate the drift and down shifting to pull out... If you hit the e-brake and downshift at the same time while going into a corner it puts you in the sweet spot of the lower gear after the e-brake clutch lets up...try it and let me know what you think

That would be impossible for me. I have an external E-brake lever on my wheel. So I would have to pull the lever and hit the shift lever at the same time. Not easy. But in theory, that would be a shift-lock. Good thinking. 💡 👍

Edit: I realized I can still hit the O button on the wheel, and it was very strange hitting the shifter with the right hand and the O button with the left hand.
I never did pull it off because I kept loosing the wheel when I reached over for the O button.

 

[Sven]

You can't use the paddles?

 

[sideslider]

ya sorry i'm using the ds2

 

[Alfaholic]

yeah, the method I use when having fun in a wet/snowy parking lot is:
1. clutch
2. grab the gear i want to pull out in (normally 2nd)
3. crank wheel
4. pull and drop handle
5. let out clutch
6. drive out of donut / drift

i say normally 2nd, because sometimes its fun to do a 180 or 540 and come out in reverse.
^^ this is probably the only e-brake fun thats harder in an AT.

Cool bananas. But since this is instructions, one point is always worth reminding people of: Don't forget to hold the handbrake button in with your thumb so it doesn't lock in the engaged position

 

[Eric.]

The only real difference between the GT4 and real e-brakes that I can tell is that the GT4 e-brake is digital (on/off only), whereas real e-brakes are analog.

GT4 puts the car in neutral when you hit the e-brake, bringing the RPMs down to idle speed. It also keeps it in the same gear. So when you try accelarating again, the game does its rev-matching thing, which causes some lag. And if you've slowed down a lot, you'll be in the wrong gear...

Not that I claim to be an e-brake expert, that's just what I think.

In RWD and AWD cars when you hit the e-brake GT disengages the clutch. In an FF it will just lock the rear wheels and you'll start to slow down. If you hold the e-brake in say, a new Integra Type-R from a stop, then rev it up (holding regular brake and the throttle) you can burn the front tires. Think about it - pulling the e-brake in a RWD locks the rear tires, the drive wheels. That would kill the engine, so GT4 engages the clutch. Same for AWD.

 

[speedthrill]

In RWD and AWD cars when you hit the e-brake GT disengages the clutch. In an FF it will just lock the rear wheels and you'll start to slow down. If you hold the e-brake in say, a new Integra Type-R from a stop, then rev it up (holding regular brake and the throttle) you can burn the front tires. Think about it - pulling the e-brake in a RWD locks the rear tires, the drive wheels. That would kill the engine, so GT4 engages the clutch. Same for AWD.

like in real life. This discussion is all wrong. We're talking about the handbrake when it's simulated just fine. Like somebody mentioned it's the tires who aren't capable of what we would like to see when pulling the e- braken in GT.

I personally use it all the time in rally courses. It even did the trick to get gold in the S-... test on the big snowy course, forgot the name. It's very useful in rally stages. You just need to know WHEN to pull it. Not when yr driving straight but when yr already turning or just after the feint to jump into the turn. Look at reall life rally drivers and how they use them. It really gives the rally stages an extradimension and to be fair. I really enjoy this part of GT4 unlike so much other people.