You ar enot only upgrading the brakes but as well you are disturbing the
brake balance. If you are not exactly knowing what you are doing, let
the brakes alone. You not only put yourself at risk but others as well.
Upgrading brakes is in principle a good thing though.
Gernot
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> From: Aaron Johnson[SMTP:sugar@holly.ColoState.EDU]
> Reply To: Aaron Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 4:39 PM
> To: James
> Cc: LANG@isis.mit.edu; janssen, lee k; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: TR6 upgrades
>
>
> why wouldn't converting the rear to discs be good for a street car. I
> would think better braking would be good for any car.
>
> aaron
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, James wrote:
>
> >
> > You said something about converting the back brakes to disks,
> > but this would not be good for a street car. Could you not
> > employ the technique they use in a land rover, they have two
> > brakes on each wheel, and one on the prop shaft, this is the
> > hand brake. I'm sure you could manufacture something like this.
> >
> > --
> > James Carpenter
> > Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
> >
>
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