Hello??? Aron Travis
I tend to agree. Just got the Midget running this evening and it will
outbrake the 96 Neon. We were running to a shop and I saw a road and hit
the brakes and meade the turn. The SO missed it completly in the Neon.
Weight vs. Swept area?
(Now i've done it!!! Started a new thread on Brooms)
Larry Macy
78 Midget
>Well, let me interject my $.02 here too.....
>
>As someone who has long enjoyed '60's muscle sedans, I think you all
>are loosing perspective on the braking qualities of a stock MGB. IMHO a
>stock MGB has better brakes than many of the cars of their era, just
>by virtue of disk brakes combined with a low weight car. When I think
>you should worry about brakes vs. HP is when your talking about cars
>like a '62 Galaxie- 4500 lbs, four wheel drum brakes, potential to
>have 400+ HP. This is a situation when you really need to upgrade
>the brakes!! A MGB is never going to really be able to develop the
>HP to brake ratio that you need to worry about brake upgrades, unless
>you're racing it. On the street I think that the brakes are more
>than adequate, especially if you have at least half a brain and pay
>attention- which will make you brake better than %95 of the zombies on
>the roads out there. Or, in other words, most of the time it's the
>drivers behavior that overpowers the brakes, not the engine.
>
>-Aron Travis-
>"always in a automotive frenzy"
>
>P.S. Not that I'm against upgrading the brakes, if you want to-go for
>it, semimetalic brakes pads work great, and I really like the firm pedal
>feel of braided brake lines.
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