[Supras] First gear

[Jeff Mohler]

There are many many cars, that I only sell 1 or 2 sets of race pads a
year to that are class winners by wide margins, and their competitors
chew thru 2-3x as much of the same stuff.  Its all how, not how MUCH.

A track might have say..15 turns, but only 2 or 3 need any REAL
braking, the rest are using brakes only to transfer weight, not really
slow down much.

On Jan 2, 2008 2:33 PM, Dan Gyoba <dgyoba at abstractconsulting.com> wrote:
> On 2 Jan 2008 at 10:24, Jeff Mohler wrote:
>
> > I'll also bet that OEM hardware on the right pads used the right way
> > (Habits enter in here) can support a 100mi a day journey through
> > difficult high speed mountain roads driven like a banshee and still
> > get 30-40k out of a set of pads without wearing out any of the
> > hardware.
>
> I think you just described my daily commute when I was staying with my dad and
> uncles in the rockies...  Yeah, the OEM brakes should survive that pretty easily.
>
> I didn't think at the time that I was being particularly hard on the brakes, but
> I KNOW that I was pretty hard on the tires.  A new set of Toyo A+4 tires was worn
> out in a summer.  They'd spend a lot of time complaining on the mine road
> switchback.  12 miles of 11% grade with 180 degree turns every 1/4 to 1/2 mile.
>
> I always figured that RACING would have to be so much harder on the brakes, since
> I never noted any problems with fade in the Supra (Unlike the pickup trucks,
> which either go really slow or stop a couple of times on the way down.)
>
>
> Dan Gyoba
> '89 NA 456,708 kms, Turbo swap COMPLETE
> http://www.abstractconsulting.com/~dan
>
>