[V8] Tire swap becomes brake job

[Ed Kellock]

Was mounting the summer tires on the GF's 90 V8q on Sunday and got
down to the last one, the right rear and noticed some metal-to-metal
contact on the brake pads.

I went in the garage looking for the pads and rotors I took off my
5spd, somewhat prematurely back when I was going to do some towing,
and I found the old rotors and some brand new pads that I'd bought,
but chose to use Mintex instead.

So an hour later, I had "new" rear brakes on the beast and loaded up
the trunk with all the really heavy stuff I could find in the garage
without too much digging, just to get the proportioning valve to work
the rear brakes a bit more than usual.

They seem to have bedded in just fine.  I knew they were thing, and so
are the fronts, but just hadn't checked them in a while.  Also reminds
me that new brakes lines are in order.

I did some tire/wheel weighing too.  Had stock flat-face wheels with
Yokohama Guardex 600's in the stock size.  Was trying to decide
between stock mesh wheels with 225/60's or some A4 16's with 205/55's.
 I was a bit surprised to find that the "balloon" tire/wheels weighed
no more than the 16's.  Plus you could really feel where the weight
was on either wheel.  With the 16's, it's all out in the plane of the
wheel face, making them feel a bit wobbly to maneuver off-car.  The
mesh wheels with the 225's felt far more "balanced" in terms of being
more of a single mass.  I realize that has little to do with the
rotational energy directly, but my WAG between the two was that the
mess/225 set would have less weight further out from the center of the
wheel.

I had always assumed that the winter set were really light.  They are
actually 1 pound heavier than the mess/225's.

If you can believe a bathroom scale, that is.

Is this thing on?

Ed