Parking brake cable - grand prix v. monte
 

Are they the same?

Going to be relocating my parking brake (probably to a hand brake, from a GP) and I need to know if the two cables are the same or if mine will fit in the GP hand brake.

your vin.....
the GP vin....

that way I can compare the two
off the top of my head I don't think it will work.. but you never know

Not pulling it off a specific car.

After some more checking it seems like there's a difference between the cables of the Grand Ams (which have the hand brake) and Montes which have the kick brake.

So I guess, is there hardware that will adjust for the different cables? Or can I retrofit it somehow?

You will definitely have to re-route the cable, as a result, I am sure the length of the cable needed will be shorter. Not sure how to best handle that. I think there was a guy on NAIOA.com that converted his 2000-2005 Impala to a stick shift, as a result, if my memory serves, he adapted a J-body (Cavvy/Sunfire) hand brake to the center of his Impala. I'm sure the process he took would be similar to do the same on a '00-'07 Monte.

Why are you trying to relocate the e-brake anyways?

The way I was going to do it was to reroute the cable to the passenger side of the center console, so the cable might not need to be shortened. Guess I'll find out. Do you have a link to the thread?

Also, you have the GA GT and a Monte... could you see if the two cables are the same?

Also, I'm interested to know why a Cavalier brake cable would work on a completely different car. :confused:

Relocating e brake because a) I have speakers in the kicks that make the brake nonfunctional and b) I hate kick brakes ;)

I had a chance to poke for the link about the e-brake, link below:
Getrag 284 Swap Build Thread - 2000-2005 General Impala Discussion - NAIOA

And a few posts later, I think he pretty much answers your questions with this statement:
Seeing as the Impala and Monte are so alike, I think this should work out for what you want to do (but I think you might need to mod or remove you center console).

Hmm, so I won't be able to use my e brake cable? They look the exact same under the car, GA just looks a bit shorter cause of where it's run to. :(

I'm totally fine with modding the console.