jstein77 wrote:
Not necessarily. If you're going 70 in an over-powered, under-braked car (like a Venza, in the CU video) and the throttle sticks wide open, you will overheat the pads pretty quickly. This is especially true if you apply them lightly at first, then a little heavier, and a litlle heavier, etc., etc. In that case, you might never get it all the way stopped before the brakes fade away completely.
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A couple of years ago I used my DD loaded 99M3 at road America.
Steel brake lines, HT10 F, HP Plus Rear, Fresh ATE yellow fluid. Toyo RA1 tyres (good braking traction.)
I could not get that heavy pos, hauled down quickly enough, to be quick. It was the most unpleasant HPDE I have done to date.
So I can see where anything that weighs above 3300lbs is under braked, especially when people don't want, or are scared, by brake noise, or brakes with good initial bite.
Most people don't want to feel a thing behind the wheel, the automakers comply, and so we have these bloated behemoths speeding down the free blissfully unaware.
We won't even mention the countless clueless punters who use the brake pedal as a footrest.
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