[Tigers] Wilwood brakes

[Ron Fraser]

Jay

No, not the same.

 

A 1G braking force is an eye opening experience that will throw you forward and slap you against the shoulder harness if you have them but it still takes about 100 feet to stop.

 

If you hit the ground at 60 mph you stop in about ½ inch and you are Humpty Dumpty.

 

I’ll take 1G braking force

 

Ron Fraser

 

From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jay Laifman via Tigers
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 12:21 PM
To: Ramon Spontelli <rspontelli at earthlink.net>
Cc: Tiger's Den <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Will wood brakes

 

Hmmm.  1G.  The same amount of force as gravity.  So if you slammed on your Tiger's brakes at 60 mph, would the impact be the same for your brain against your skull as if your body was falling at 60 mph and hit the ground?

 

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Ramon Spontelli via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net <mailto:tigers at autox.team.net> > wrote:

For what it's worth . . .

Somewhere in the house I have some G-Analayst printouts showing 1.0G in
braking for the Mk II running autocross.  This was an SCCA-legal BSP car
with bone-stock brakes, OEM/stock shoes in the rear, Porterfield metallic
pads in the front, and Rick's replacement for the Girling servo.  Yeah, we
were running 225-45 x 15 Hoosier Autocrossers on 15 x 8 Revolution wheels
all 'round, but the brakes themselves were stock.

If you think you need road-race brakes on a street car, then go for the
Wilwood stuff.  Otherwise, there's nothing wrong with the stock brakes.

Ramon



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