[Tigers] Will wood brakes

[Ramon Spontelli]

No. An instantaneous braking force of 1G would slow you down, but it would not stop you.

 

Ramon

 

 

 

 

 

From: Jay Laifman [mailto:jay.laifman at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 9:21 AM
To: Ramon Spontelli
Cc: Tiger's Den
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Will wood brakes

 

Hmmm.  1G.  The same amount of force as gravity.  So if you slammed on your Tiger's brakes at 60 mph, would the impact be the same for your brain against your skull as if your body was falling at 60 mph and hit the ground?

 

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Ramon Spontelli via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

For what it's worth . . .

Somewhere in the house I have some G-Analayst printouts showing 1.0G in
braking for the Mk II running autocross.  This was an SCCA-legal BSP car
with bone-stock brakes, OEM/stock shoes in the rear, Porterfield metallic
pads in the front, and Rick's replacement for the Girling servo.  Yeah, we
were running 225-45 x 15 Hoosier Autocrossers on 15 x 8 Revolution wheels
all 'round, but the brakes themselves were stock.

If you think you need road-race brakes on a street car, then go for the
Wilwood stuff.  Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with the stock brakes.

Ramon



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