Tales of brakes as long as we're off topic a little.
In '67 my best friend and I bought each Camaros. His was an SS350 and had drum brakes. It was a dog. I had a set of 4.10 gears, and we went down to Chevy and got an L79 cam. After installation we went out to test it. Our test site was 1/2 mile long with a 35-40mph corner at the end. I ran his car through the gears and then got on the brakes hard at the end, stopped and turned around. I ran it hard through the gears going back and another hard stop. Turned around and said I wanted to try more revs. Well, I only had brakes down to about 70, but good pedal. By downshifting and pushing as hard on the pedal as I could, I spun going through the corner, and was blessed to keep it out of the ditches. Those brakes were toast.
Last edited by Greybeard; 01/24/11 09:31 PM.
