Big Brakes

[Larry C Leung]

Well, not always (see my long post). For my type of driving (and within
the rules I must race) stock systems will do, but I don't reach fade
conditions in Autocross that often, though I have managed to really smoke
the brakes on a mid-eighties Accord that it's owner wanted me to drive. 

LL - NY

On Sun, 02 Sep 2001 22:12:03 +0200 Helge Wunderlich <helgeww at start.no>
writes:
>On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:06:09 -0500, Achint Sandhu wrote:
>
>>	On a single stop from lets say a 100, doing threshold 
>braking
>>will bigger brakes shorten your stopping distances ? If yes, why ?
>>
>>	No ABS. Assuming expert driver.
>
>No, the stopping distance would be identical. The limiting factor is
>traction between tyre and road.
>
>Small or big brakes, they will always be plenty strong enogh to lock
>the wheel.
>
>-- 
>Helge Wunderlich