[Land-speed] Fwd: Re: LSR Brake Question

David adin at frontier.net
Sun Oct 13 14:19:56 MDT 2013


Can we quote you on that?

Sent from my little hand held gizmo

On Oct 13, 2013, at 1:50 PM, "Ed Van Scoy" <ed at vetteracing.com> wrote:

> Brakes come in REAL handy when you are on fire.......
> Ed V
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Savage [mailto:b.a.savage at cal.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 05:34 PM
> To: 'LandSpeed List'
> Subject: [Land-speed] Fwd: Re: LSR Brake Question
>
> -------- Original Message --------Subject: Re: [Land-speed] LSR Brake
> QuestionDate: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:17:54 -0700From: Bryan Savage To:
> drmayf at mayfco.comWell what do you ACTUALLY use the wheel brakes for at
> Bonneville? Theyare necessary if the wind is blowing down the course, in
your
> face withvigor, and you don't want to be pulled backwards. They are also
> usefulwhen unloading from the transport vehicle. With a real Bonneville
> racevehicle you don't use them for stopping above 10 or 20 MPH. I can't
seeany
> advantage for a specific axle. It seems to me that the best choicewould be
the
> simplest installation. A hand brake to the rear axle soundsgood to
me.Cheers
> and good luck Mayf...Bryan (in Placerville, CA.)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!>>
>
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