pads/disks for 90

[Larry C Leung]

FWIW Saab decided on it's 1971 99 series through the heavily related
Ur900 ('89 - 90?) series that the P-brake should be on the FRONT brakes
so that it'd be actually effective as an emergency brake (those crazy
thoughtful Swedish aircraft engineers!). In fact, on the '74 model, they
made the P-brake a separate concentric drum set-up which apparently
troublesome so it was discontinued the following year. I tried stopping
with the P-brake on my 75 '99 a few times and it was QUITE effective,
MUCH more effective than any rear P-brake car I've tried. Then, GM bought
a controlling interest in Saab, and even Bob Sinclair couldn't save the
front P-Brake......

LL - NY

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:19:16 -0400 George Selby <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net>
writes:
>At 12:38 AM 7/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>FWIW, the only street car I know that significantly uses it's rear 
>brakes
>>(to great advantage, BTW) is the Porsche 911 series (all variants), 
>and
>>perhaps a few other mid-engined exotics.
>
>My 300ZX goes through front and rear pads at approximately the same 
>mileage 
>interval, so they must be doing something (it also has a 51/49 weight 
>balance.)
>
>We tried to remove the front brakes on a dune buggy we had at one 
>point in 
>time, you could barely stop the thing with just the rears, and it 
>weighted 
>around 1000 lbs and we weren't driving very fast.  We quickly 
>reattached 
>the fronts (it was my stepfather's idea not mine to remove them!)
>
>George Selby
>70 F-100 Ranger XLT 400 C6
>78 F-150 4x4 400 4 spd
>83 Audi Coupe GT
>86 Nissan 300ZX
>92 Subaru Legacy Wagon AWD
>gselby4x4 at earthlink.net
>