SCOTT WILLIAMS - Lord and Savior -OR- Dark Master

[sfwilliams@comcast.net (Scott F. Williams)]

Oh, I'll definitely pipe in and claim the "Dark Master" title for several
reasons. :^) Heh heh, I've never seen my name thrown around so much since I
joined this list many years ago. This is totally hilarious!
--
Scott F. Williams
NJ Scirocco nut
'99 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS
Mazda 323 GTX turbo "assaulted" vehicle
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Jason F. Snow
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:41 AM
> To: 'Brett Van Sprewenburg'; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: RE: SCOTT WILLIAMS - Lord and Savior -OR- Dark Master
>
>
> This thread subject was getting boring...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Brett Van
> Sprewenburg
> Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 9:25 AM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: cross drilled rotors Scott Williams is WRONG!
>
> >--- Brett Van Sprewenburg <brett@netacc.net> wrote:
> > > As I mentioned in one of my posts, most of the tweeking we do to our
> >street driven cars braking systems don't really matter as we generally
> >do not drive the cars hard enough for it to make a big difference...
> > > Tuning it to how you like it can include caliper piston diameters,
> > > master cylinder diameter, rotor dimensions, pad compounds, etc all
> > >factor into it.
> > > However, we probably shouldn't say that changing these items is
> > > a universal performance enhancement without understanding what
> > > variables it's affecting, or how the braking system actually works.
> >
> >A favorite old Physics professor asked us: what stops the car?
> >Everybody said brakes.  WRONG. It's the road.  And then the tires.  And
> >then the brakes.  Soo...would not the first performance enhancement we
> >make (assuming that road conditions are a given) be the tires?  (in
> >other words, I agree with Brian...upgrading brakes via diamter,
> >slottings drilling, etc. is probably an excerise in futility unless we
> >increase the tires grip on the road, assuming there are gains to be
> >made (i.e., if you're running R1's, you're at max already).
> >
> >Case in point: doesn't our Mr. Meze run 9.4" unslotted disks on his
> >autox car?  NO NEED for larger diameter, slots, grooves, holes as his
> >conditions don't warrant them...common sense, folks...
> >
> >=====
> >Cheapass Ron
>
>
> Thanks Ron, this is exactly the point I've been trying to get
> across...but
> remember that changing those things can make a difference in how the
> driver interacts with the cars braking system (I won't go into it
> here again though),
> without any of the changes actually making a universal 'performance'
> improvement.
>
> ==Brett
>
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