re Re: wheels/tyres

["Smith, Kirby A" <kirby.a.smith@lmco.com>]

"Brian and Mea Jowett" <syncroboy@hotmail.com> wrote the following
generalization:

You will not fit an EXCELLENT or affordable (being a relative thing here) 
brake system under 15" wheels for a car that weighs in excess of 2500 
pounds.
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I would like to point out that the excellent AND affordable sintered
metallic drum brakes once built by GM for NASCAR fit very nicely inside the
13-inch!! wheels on my 2600 lb Corvair.  The brakes never complained on the
track (although the engine routinely overheated).  There was a lot more pad
surface than on my 90q.  Braking was superb, as several higher class drivers
could attest.  I think the putative improvement of disk brakes over drum
brakes considerably exceeds the actual improvement, for street use and
autocross, at least.

Kirby A. Smith   New Hampshire USA
1988 90q Titanium gray, 180 kmi
1988 90q Stone gray, 185 kmi - under construction
1988 90q Stone gray, 180 kmi - under destruction
1995 S6 Pearl effect, 80 kmi