NAC: Stainless brake lines on a street car?
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SuffolkD at aol.com
Sat Jun 24 22:35:33 EDT 2006
MArk's cracked rotor is here:
http://www.quattro123.com/WatkinsGlen2003/PDVD_356RotorCrackVette.jpg
An excellent example of checking things over.............
If you can find a DOT approved SS line try it. Your risk.
-Scott by BOSTON
> From: "Mark R" <speedracer.mark at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NAC: Stainless brake lines on a street car?
> To: brett at cloud9.net
> Cc: David Ullrich <david.ullrich at gmail.com>, Quattro List
>
>
> That's almost happened to me with stock (plain finish) brakes. If I'd not
> noticed the crack, the neaxt heat cycle would've exploded them, and probably
> in trail braking (max heat), and probably locking up a wheel. The resulting
> spin just couldn't have been good! Luckily, I happened to look at the
> brakes when eating lunch. It became a good show-and-tell for students. Oh,
> the crack was through both sides of the rotor, about 2" long, propogating
> from the outside to the hub of the rotor.
>
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