Brakes come in REAL handy when you are on fire.......
Ed V
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From: Bryan Savage [mailto:b.a.savage@cal.net]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 05:34 PM
To: 'LandSpeed List'
Subject: [Land-speed] Fwd: Re: LSR Brake Question
-------- Original Message --------Subject: Re: [Land-speed] LSR Brake
QuestionDate: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:17:54 -0700From: Bryan Savage To:
drmayf@mayfco.comWell what do you ACTUALLY use the wheel brakes for at
Bonneville? Theyare necessary if the wind is blowing down the course, in your
face withvigor, and you don't want to be pulled backwards. They are also
usefulwhen unloading from the transport vehicle. With a real Bonneville
racevehicle you don't use them for stopping above 10 or 20 MPH. I can't seeany
advantage for a specific axle. It seems to me that the best choicewould be the
simplest installation. A hand brake to the rear axle soundsgood to me.Cheers
and good luck Mayf...Bryan (in Placerville, CA.)On 10/11/2013 4:32 PM, Larry
Mayfield wrote:> Ok, so I am running 4 wheel disk brakes now. Why? Well, when
I> started the activity I was dumber than a bag of squash, but smarter> than
broccoli. Not much, but some. So I have a dual master cylinder> and a
proportioning valve to help keep the rears from locking up. My> question is,
IF I got smart (???) and decided to go to one axle> braking only, which axle
would be best? In road cars, the front does> the majority of heavy lifting in
the braking department, but is that> necessarily a good thing on a salt car? I
tend to lean to having the> brakes on the rar axle but am not sure why, lol...
Is there a good> technical reason other than "well, dang, that's the way it
has always> been done" answer?>> With a smaller master cylinder I might be
able to just go with a brake> lever and eliminate that pesky brake pedal mess
under the dash.>> Love to hear comments..even those that question my sanity,
smartness,> dumb ness, ugliness or what ever. As long as there is a kernal in
the> email about brakes that lends itself to a pearl of wisdom for me.>> fire
away!>>
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