in too deep: trying to go BBP on a 68 barracuda and its going.. poorly.

RustyRatRod said
Like our beloved high school auto shop teacher used to say "Braking is least effective during a skid".

Exactly!

This isn't all that hard to understand, and it's printed anywhere you might look. One might even say it's just a fact of basic physics, and common knowledge for anyone in the automotive field! Seems like a silly thing to be trying to argue against.

66fs said
I grew up driving boats before cars. I time lights. I'm not stupid enough to ride someones backside. If someone drives like a moron, I get as far away from them as possible. I've probably put half a million miles on A Body Barraudas with 10 in drum brakes and never needed more. Shouldn't she be driving a red Super Stock Dodge?

While those are all good habits to have they do not guarantee that someone without good driving habits won't do something stupid and put you in a situation where you'd need better than 10" drums. Just takes one dipstick to cut you off and slam on the brakes, and if they're in something made in the last decade or two you've got no shot at stopping short with factory drums.

Sounds like you've been very fortunate for a very long time, which is great. But 10" brakes are not at all great by todays standards, and there are simple upgrades that can dramatically improve your stopping distances. Even just the factory disk brakes can improve stopping distances substantially, you don't need to go full pro touring to stop much better than you can with 10" drums all the way 'round. Now granted that will still put you at a disadvantage against a modern car, but if you knock a car length off your stopping distance that just might be a car you don't hit.