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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Threshold braking (was Re: "tank" superchargers)
- Message-ID: <1992Oct10.004651.16808@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Date: 10 Oct 92 00:46:51 GMT
- References: <548.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
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- In article <548.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- > Perhaps you're driving on a level surface instead of the cambered road
- >which was mentioned in the original message? Perhaps you simply aren't
- >pushing the envelope hard enough? Perhaps you're not driving a normal
- >production automobile, which usually isn't within 300 pounds on
- >left/right weight bias and usually not within 1/2 inch of square?
-
- thinking about this message yesterday and this morning, some light
- suddenly dawned ... i've spent much time over the past several years
- practicing selecting braking zones that are straight and flat (laterally,
- not longitudinally) and generally avoiding braking in cambered situations;
- i would agree that braking with uneven loads would cause lockup of one
- wheel or another first. i also realized that the bulk of my track driving
- is done with a passenger in the right seat, and that my wheel alignments
- are generally done without weights in the driver seat that approximate
- my weight.
-
- in other words, i now understand at least some of what you're getting at.
-
- richard
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