Guy building replica of 1950s scratch built race car

In reply to admc58:

I would love to show my progress. But you would have show up soon as I am moving to South Carolina in about a month or so.

We love this funky stuff. Please keep posting and building. Not necessarily in that order.

That being said i really have no progress to show as i shut shop when i found out that i was going to move.

In reply to Xceler8x:Thanks from a Richmond native. Is Sportscarworshops still in business? What about Delta V. I worked for both shops when they both started up.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

DaewooOfDeath wrote: He also dismisses disc brakes as having no possible application to road racing.

I read in some book on Enzo Ferrari that he also refused to acknowledge disk brakes for a while. I don't recall the reason - only that it made no sense to my understanding of them. It is altogether possible that disk brakes of the 1950s were crappy and unreliable compared to drums.

I have no doubt there was a reason Enzo Ferrari and Chuck Manning dismissed disc brakes. I just have no idea what that reason was.

Seems like there should be a technical breakthrough on the 1952 Jaguar C-Type that all of a sudden made them practical. I simply don't know what that breakthrough was.

Enzo dismissed disc brakes because he refused to put Girling parts on an Italian racecar.

Shawn

Enzo was a goof.

In reply to DaewooOfDeath: Read the following link. It explains some of troubles people were having with disc brakes and even points out that Jag didn't use them in the 52 LeMans race. (I didn't know this). Its worth reading the whole thing as it has a lot of good info. I think about 12 pages of info . http://auto.howstuffworks.com/jaguar-c-type5.htm

Sounds like they had troubles with pad knock-back and boiling brake fluid. Interesting. I wonder how hard it is to make a rigid disk and caliper.