[s-cars] Porsche Big Reds or Big Blacks

[Doug Landaeta]

...continuation of rant... (stop here if you don't like whiners ;~) )

Not even slow speeds are safe enough compared to many of today's brakes -
What one may be likely to encounter in an actual stop 'n go environment,
crappy drivers riding their brakes so there is no difference between a
slightly coasting, maybe even decelerating vehicle in front of you and a
*rapidly* decelerating vehicle in front of you cost me a goodly sum in hood,
grill, radiator, condenser, fan, fan clutch, PS pulley, not to mention my
new Eurolights (which only have broken bottom tabs - but still not useable
at the moment).  Yeah, I coulda been more attentive, but the Mintex pad bite
that I was used to, didn't exist with the OEM pads (don't ask how they got
on there). Regardless of pads, more braking power would have avoided a 6mph
kiss that barely scratched a BM7 series and left me outta pocket $$$$.

If you're still reading, It was my attempt to avoid the cost of bigger
Winter wheels, -anyone want a very nice set of 15" Ronals?-  and wait till
Springtime to get that ECS kit in, that was the foolish part. 

Doug L
94 S4
Mit new nose, payin' those tolls - 8x daily

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:s-car-list-
> bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Mark Strangways
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 9:45 PM
> To: Elijahallen92 at aol.com; lee at wheelman.com; Brucem105 at comcast.net;
> kevin.campbell at autodesk.com; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Porsche Big Reds or Big Blacks
> 
> The stock brakes SUCK, they are not to be trusted for any kind of high
> speed
> driving.
> How these made it into a German car I will never know, unless they sent us
> the crap they didn't like.
> 
> In a very hard to panic stop from 100 + you will be lucky to make it out
> with out some embarrasment of sorts.
> I was never really able to lock the front wheels up on dry pavement with
> decent summers, this (to me) speaks of problems.
> 
> I put on the 996 calipers over 993 rotors and believe it to be one of the
> best upgrades ( or required improvements) that I have done.
> I suppose if you where to drive the car with in our NA legal limits with-
> out
> any spirit, then you might be ok.
> 
> End of rant.
> 
> Mark S
> 
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