Hey Steve,
It has been a few years (more than a few actually) since my series V was on the road.
But good brake performance was one of the few constaints with the car. Performance was
adequate, the electrical system was sporty ... but the brakes worked very well, all
things considered. Came to a quick stop in a straight line everytime it had too. I
don't want to sound too caviliar, but you should not require kevlar pads to get pretty
good performance.
On the other hand, you do appear to be attending to all of the usual suspects, and if
kevlar pads help, great.
-Roger
steve sage wrote:
>
snip
>
> Hello Rootes Group:
> I don't think the question is if Alpine and Tiger brakes work OK in ideal
> conditions, as they do. The question I am addressing is how do they work in
> real world conditions, repeated stop and go and stopping and panic stops to
> avoid accidents. In these cases, the standard setup does nowhere near the job
> safety requires, and this is from real world experience in driving Alpines and
> a Tiger as everyday transportation for pretty much the last 33 years. I'll
> happily accept a bit faster rotor wear, if this is actually a result of using
> the Kevlar pads ( which I don't know that it is) over getting in a crash any
> day of the week.
>
> Steve Sage
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:19:25 CDT