booster addition to manual brakes
Well. What I meant was I have greatly reduced my stopping distance, and need way less leg effort to do it. And in fact I am now wearing out rear brake shoes about 2 to 3 times faster than front pads. That indicates to me that the rear brakes are doing much more of the braking than what the factory designed them to do. But since there is so much more rubber back there, skidding is not an issue and the rear end coming around is no longer an issue either.And nose dive is also greatly reduced. Now when I hammer on the brakes, the entire car seems to drop a bit and then its over, Im stopped.
I call that stopping power; the ability to stop in a short distance with no drama and minimal personal effort.
I remember in 71,while still in high school,I had a 70 Swinger 340-4spd. Those were the hot cars to have back then. It went 98 in the qt and like all the other factory stock muscle cars of the era we thought that was killer fast.I thought those KH brakes on that car were pretty good. They saved my hide quite a few times.
Well, one day, a fellow offered me a ride in his brand new Corvette. He was planning to scare me in his Vette, the way I had been scaring him in my Dart. Well that BB brute wasnt that fast, but it cornered pretty good.And the brakes were absolutely killer-awesome.That impressed the dickens out of me.It stopped so hard it was a good thing it had shoulder belts cause my face was dashboard bound.I will never forget the brakes of that car.That was brake power. I think my FormulaS is at least on par with that, now.
Polyglass tires were state of the art tires in 1970. The Dart had E70-14s from the factory. Today I wouldnt put them on my trailer.
Ah the memories.