Reply to "Rear Brakes"

Derrick, many of the guys on this board have big bucks, many are long time Pantera owners, many are new Pantera owners, many are just above average income earners who have long project lists like me. It's good that you are thinking about automotive technology and asking why this now, but that back then. Really, though, inboard disk brakes just reduce unsprung weight. If you read the article in PI about wheels and tires, that's really a better way to spend the money. Rotating mass causes centrifcal force, there's a mathematical formula for it. Reduce that unsprung weight first, for the best bang for your buck, then go to smaller details. I had to decide whether to get my entire exhaust Jet-Hot Coated right now. My car's only been mine 7 weeks, and I've spent so much money, so fast, and it's getting even further dissassembled in the next 36 hours, man, this stuff scares me. I can barely get around in my garage right now, with parts everywhere, and cash flowing out of my pocket. I'd really have considered the '71 offered by Fire & Isis if I hadn't already got mine. If I sold mine, then, with my luck, that one would be sold. Taters, well the name says it all. No steak and taters, just taters. Didn't drive down to San Diego, just complaining 'cause life's pasin' him by. I wanted my Pantera for 30 years. And I'm just gonna do what I want to it. The Lotus was a doggone fast car around the corners, faster than a Pantera, about 1000 pounds lighter, and I was running 12 psi rear w/ 12" skins and 8 psi front w/ 10" skins. Looked great, but no power. They're turbo charged now, but I wanted a Pantera.

The great thing in life is you can do what you want, if you are gonna work hard for it, but it ain't gonna come easy.

F-1 and CART forgot about the disk brakes, and Jack said why he thought so, and so did I. You are free to go whatever way you want in this regard. I, for one, do not have an infinitly deep pocket. You've identified some potential problems, but don't let that stop you from getting a Pantera, that ain't no big deal....

s/ Ron