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Re: Disc brakes or?

To: Mike <Michael_Gee@telus.net>, Vintage Race
Subject: Re: Disc brakes or?
From: Michael Frank <mfrank@westnet.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:13:54 -0500
Only problem with your analogy  is that all E-Types have disk brakes. Lousy 
disk brakes, but disk brakes all around. Maybe good drums would have helped 
him stay on course.

Mike Frank

At 07:32 PM 11/29/01, Mike wrote:
>meone said in an earlier email that
>orginal equipment is best and that drums are safe enough.
>I recall a friend who raced his XKE back in the 60s and could never
>finish the race because of brake failure <snip>............
>Commentators must be thinking about flat airport-like tracks when they
>say that drums are just fine.  They ought to race on real circuits with
>dramatic changes in altitude such as Westwood or SI or other West Coast
>tracks..

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