At 09:33 PM 7/7/98 CDT, you wrote: >ok, remember the thread about how far it took to stop from 70 mph?? Kudo's Joel!; nicely presented info...Last month's R&T had an interesting comment ref coming to a stop: the question was, should one wait & brake hard, or 'float' the brakes to a gentle stop, since a given quantity of work is done irrespective of which method one uses (assuming one has a choice, of course!). The answer was 'yeah the same energy is dissipated, but by braking light that energy has more *time* to be scrubbed off, thus letting the brakes run cooler, which in turn means they'll last longer (& you won't warp yer rotators!). Austin (with 103K on the original brakes - yes, I drive 'roun town too) |
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