[Tigers] SCF74 at monterey video

[Ramon Spontelli]

<<It also shows you how sketchy the (1963-vintage) brakes are - he's only
getting about 0.6G of deceleration.>>

For "sketchy" brakes, somewhere I have an old G-Analyst printout showing
1.0G in braking with the Mk II autocrosser at a CalClub championship.
Running legal in BSP, we had bone-stock brakes with OEM shoes at the rear,
Dale's Carbon-Kevlar pads from Porterfield at the front, and all OEM
calipers/rotors/drums, master and wheel cylinders, and booster. 

Yes, they are not in the same class as the Z06 brakes, but not too shabby
for 1959 technology. <Think Series I Alpine with a booster . . . > 

<<I'm sure that he could do more, but only once or twice and then that would
be it for the brakes.>>

Absolutely!  First time we tried an open-track event at Willow Springs,
driving like it was an autocross, we were in the pits bleeding off boiling
brake fluid after three or four laps--whole different game!

Ramon



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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:16:25 -0600
From: Theo Smit <tsmit at shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] SCF74 at monterey video
To: michael king <michael.s.king at gmail.com>
Cc: Tiger Talk List Tiger <tigers at autox.team.net>
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michael king wrote:
> I heard #74 had an unlucky weekend at monterey.. this is an incar video
from
> a falcon chasing the SCF car.. seesmt o develop a braking issue or tyre
> problem.. either way.. fun to watch it doing weeel before the problem..
> holds of a cobra without to much trouble.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYm2ITk2R5k&feature=channel_page
>
>   
That's a great video. That Falcon (and by extension, Buck's Tiger and 
the other cars in that group) is pulling some serious cornering G - the 
datalogger display showed 1.2G in either lateral direction. It also 
shows you how sketchy the (1963-vintage) brakes are - he's only getting 
about 0.6G of deceleration. I'm sure that he could do more, but only 
once or twice and then that would be it for the brakes.

Cheers,
Theo