[Shotimes] brakes'friction material

[Donald Mallinson]

I doubt if these pads will be made, not sure of the purpose 
behind the post.

Fact is, that Asbestos is illegal, and for good reason.

Fact is that we have found several very good brake pad 
compounds that take the heat of competition on this somewhat 
heavy car (lots of heavier cars get on the track these days).

There is no need to create dangerous materials that will put 
out clouds of cancer causing dust just so this one guy can 
have what he considers better brakes.  He doesn't need to do 
this, and I suspect he knows this.

No wonder he signs with a "mystery" name.  Does anyone 
really know Who mysteryman (T.E.) is?


Don Mallinson
Not a mysteryman........ :)

mysteryman@x-press.net wrote:
> Hi all, I ran across your site by accident and saw what Leigh Smith 
> had written about brake pads. There is on thing that was not 
> mentioned. The major problem with friction material today is, is that 
> there is no more asbestos being used in the friction material !!!   
> The industry has not had enough time to properly develop non asbestos 
> friction material to replace the asbestos. This is a major problem on 
> older cars that were originally designed for asbestos. My testing of 
> many of the currently available pads has shown that many of the cars 
> will no longer even stop with in the federal standards that were in 
> effect when the cars were produced. I have decided that I am going to 
> have pads/shoes that properly stop my cars and trucks come hell or 
> high water. So I contacted a few people I know in the friction 
> material biz and convinced them to produce the asbestos friction 
> material that I want to use.  I was an engineer at Chrysler for 32 
> years and was able to call in a few favors. I have all the specs on 
> most all the automotive frictions that have been produced in the last 
> 40 years. I will be having 3 of the best produced next month. This is 
> a hush hush deal. The co. that is producing this for me does not wish 
> to be known. If  you SHO guys would like some pads for your cars I 
> can have them run when I do mine. This is a one time deal !! There 
> will be no more ever produced in the USA ever again. I will have 
> enough for myself and a few friends to last us the rest of our lives. 
> Contact me if you and your guys have any interest in getting any.  
> Thx...///T.E
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