cool, Doug.
good to know. Probably could help some LSR car guys-- especially if you
only needed a tiny bit to qualify for a record. I was really kidding about
"too much horsepower". It's like "too much fun"-- there ain't no such
thing!! (as the country song says).
Russ
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Odom [mailto:popms@thegrid.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 9:47 AM
To: Russel Mack
Cc: Land Speed List
Subject: Re: Brakes
Russ, NASCAR racers for years have used this at Daytona and Talladega (
where you don't use the brakes to run a lap). Next time you watch qualifying
at
one of these tracks you might see a paper on the steering wheel that says "
NO
BRAKES'. That is why they push the car by hand all the way to the front of
the
qualifying line. The driver never touches the brake pedal till after he has
taken the checkered flag. Then the driver just pumps the pedal lightly a
couple
times and he has brakes to come into the pits. We used to back the
adjustment on
drum brakes off a couple of clicks before we had disc's for the same reason.
Doug Odom in big ditch
Russel Mack wrote:
> List:
> although I had discovered the effectiveness of pushing the pucks back
while
> playing with drivetrain drag in my garage, I noticed at World Finals that
> many of the other LSR bikers seem to have already discovered this little
> trick. At least one biker on this list can probably even give you a pretty
> close estimate of how many extra mph this trick will give, if he wants to.
> I can't personally, because I never made a full-throttle pass without Bill
> first pushing back the pucks, so I have no comparison.
>
> Don't know if any of the car guys are doing it. You all have way too much
> horsepower,(and training wheels)-- so who cares about a little brake drag
on
> a LSR car, anyway?
>
>
> > List
> >
> > We have had a problem with front brakes (oem disc) dragging. I think it
is
> a problem but others same not to worry, it will be minimal at speed. Does
> anyone have experience with this......comments?......Solutions?
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