[Land-speed] LSR Brake Question

[Jim Dincau]

Mayf,
     You read too much into my reply, there is no un published criteria that 
must be met and approved. If you have only front brakes you must apply for a 
waiver stating you accept the risks and the waiver must be signed by the 
head tech inspector.
Jim

-----Original Message----- 
From: Larry Mayfield
Date: Friday, October 11, 2013 6:45 PM
To: LSR
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] LSR Brake Question

Ok, with the information that a rule exists to prevent brakes only on
the front axle unless a set of unpublished criteria is met and the
design is approved, this is now officially a dead issue for  me. Hold
you emails please... I'll stick to the rule book... If  I decide to
change my break set up, it will be with a lever operated rear brake
system only.  I only use the brakes when speeds are way way down anyway...

larry

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On 10/11/2013 4:32 PM, Larry Mayfield wrote:
> Ok, so I am running 4 wheel disk brakes now.  Why? Well, when I started 
> the activity I was dumber than a bag of squash, but smarter than broccoli. 
> Not much, but some.  So I have a dual master cylinder and a proportioning 
> valve to help keep the rears from locking up. My question is, IF I got 
> smart (???) and decided to go to one axle braking only, which axle would 
> be best? In road cars, the front does the majority of heavy lifting in the 
> braking department, but is that necessarily a good thing on a salt car?  I 
> tend to lean to having the brakes on the rar axle but am not sure why, 
> lol...  Is there a good technical reason other than "well, dang, that's 
> the way it has always been done"  answer?
>
> With a smaller master cylinder I might be able to just go with a brake 
> lever and eliminate that pesky brake pedal mess under the dash.
>
> Love to hear comments..even those that question my sanity, smartness, dumb 
> ness, ugliness or what ever. As long as there is a kernal in the email 
> about brakes that lends itself to a pearl of wisdom for me.
>
> fire away!
>
> mayf
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