Members with 4 wheel disc systems.....Can you get the tires to skid?

[1 Wild R/T]

I agree.
The brakes shouldn't have to hold back the engine power.
When his throttle stuck the first time he should have pulled over and found out the problem.
If he couldn't figure it out and correct it then shut it off and call a flat bed.

Yup... You would like that the throttle never stick, but he had the good luck of it unsticking once... But then he had to be stupid & try his luck again...

 

[33 IMP]

A guy went through the net at the end of Irwindales strip (1/8th mile) Thursday night. Pretty sure his throttle stuck, cause it sounded like he thought he was running a 1/4 mile track. His brakes certainly weren't able to stop him
Fortunately , he wasn't hurt
I don't know about his car, a 6-71 blown small block Anglia.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

A guy went through the net at the end of Irwindales strip (1/8th mile) Thursday night. Pretty sure his throttle stuck, cause it sounded like he thought he was running a 1/4 mile track. His brakes certainly weren't able to stop him
Fortunately , he wasn't hurt
I don't know about his car, a 6-71 blown small block Anglia.

That's a shame, Anglia's are cool and there aren't many left.... Good that he wasn't hurt...
A NE car that I was crewing on wound up in the sand at the end of Fallon/Top Gun, we were hooking up to pull him out & the starter sent a couple more cars down to join us... One had his chute fail to deploy..... Could have been ugly but we were paying attention & got lucky..

 

[33 IMP]

That's a shame, Anglia's are cool and there aren't many left.... Good that he wasn't hurt...
A NE car that I was crewing on wound up in the sand at the end of Fallon/Top Gun, we were hooking up to pull him out & the starter sent a couple more cars down to join us... One had his chute fail to deploy..... Could have been ugly but we were paying attention & got lucky..

Strangely enough, there were two blown small chevy powered Anglias at Irwindale Thursday, along with a bunch of FAST cars . There's a big grudge race there tomorrow. A mustang with a turboed ls went 4.60/153 , (not fast in some parts,, real fast here!) in the eighth. Three hellcats, (don't know exactly which version) slowest was 5.70s, fast one was 5.35/130.
Edit : not the F.A.S.T.cars, just fast!

 

[RemCharger]

Banging around on the guard rails sucks. Good chance your bell is rung. We just had a friend / racer that was knocked out for a while, In a caged roadster .

 

[fourgearsavoy]

I have Wilwood brakes on front and rear of my Savoy and I have never tried to "lock them up" on purpose. My car always stops on a dime nice and smooth with no drama. I can always make the turn on the first return road at the track. It's all manual with no bias valves or adjustment in the system just lines off the 1"bore Strange master cylinder. I have Dyna-pro 11.5"on the front and Dyna-lite on the rear. It's just a simple no nonsense set up that just works.

Gus

 

[Kern Dog]

I'd be interested in knowing the weight of the car, Gus.
Mine is around 3950. A manual master cylinder setup wasn't a good fit for me. I tried a 1.03 and a 15/16" and both required pedal effort far higher than what I was comfortable with.

 

[fourgearsavoy]

I'd be interested in knowing the weight of the car, Gus.
Mine is around 3950. A manual master cylinder setup wasn't a good fit for me. I tried a 1.03 and a 15/16" and both required pedal effort far higher than what I was comfortable with.

My car scales with me in it is just a tick over 3600# My pedal pressure is a bit firm. I would like to try a 15/16 MC just to see if I like the feel of it. This winter I'm installing a hydraulic parking brake so I might change it then.
Gus

 

[Kern Dog]

Well, that does make a difference. I'm 210 so I'm at 4160 or thereabouts, over 500 lbs more. I liked the concept of a 4 wheel manual disc for simplicity and weight savings but pedal pressure was just too dang high.