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Rob H

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17th May, 2008 at 05:13:46pm

Something for the Avon Park boys to think about:

Would you be better off running drum brakes on the front? I've not weighed them but I'd have thought that a set up with minifin drums would weight about the same as steel discs and alloy calipers, but thats a side note. The main benefit I can see is that they have a lot less rolling resistance.

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17th May, 2008 at 05:29:14pm

Depends if it was a dedicated avon machine or not I suppose?

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17th May, 2008 at 05:32:49pm

How about just remove the front discs and calipers altogether?

would the rears not have enough braking.

(not a serious sugestion BTW *wink* )

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17th May, 2008 at 05:34:11pm




On 17th May, 2008 Rob H said:
Would you be better off running drum brakes on the front?


I've been over the line at 118mph in The DON, if something went wrong and I needed to stop quickly I really wouldn't want drums on the front!!!


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17th May, 2008 at 11:45:08pm

The big problem would be the little cv joints

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I seriously doubt it!

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18th May, 2008 at 12:29:19am




On 17th May, 2008 paul wiginton said:
The big problem would be the little cv joints

Paul


wouldn't be a prob in a a straight line , problems occur with plate diffs and the transition from deirt to tarmac when the diffs all wound up,= broken CV's.
been there done that.


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