$1000 ?
Wow... that's 1/10th of my new race-engine - and that even goes vrooom :o)
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$1000 ?
Wow... that's 1/10th of my new race-engine - and that even goes vrooom :o)
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That's more than my first CAR...<g>
Eldred
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Maybe they're -too- real. Anyone see the story on Andy Wallace in Autoweek?
He said his Grand Am Daytona Prototype requires 1100 lbs (!) of pressure to
fully depress the brake pedal, and (at a standstill?) he's only capable of
800.
Alan
Maybe there was a little misunderstanding on the part of ECCI when they
defined their parameters.
Because, you don't need to depress a brake pedal fully, ever, in a real
car. All you need is to get to where the brakes lock up, and that is
usually a lot earlier than at the fully-depressed position.
If you needed to depress the brake pedal fully to get the brakes to lock
up, you could be sure you had a brake fluid leake somewhere.
Achim
FF half a century to driving sims. With a few notable exceptions (like
ECCI), we drive w. brake pedals where travel = deceleration and marvel that
it's hard to modulate the braking effort ("threshold lockup"). ECCI is
doing the right thing, but they may not have gotten the params right.
> Maybe there was a little misunderstanding on the part of ECCI when they
> defined their parameters.
> Because, you don't need to depress a brake pedal fully, ever, in a real
> car. All you need is to get to where the brakes lock up, and that is
> usually a lot earlier than at the fully-depressed position.
> If you needed to depress the brake pedal fully to get the brakes to lock
> up, you could be sure you had a brake fluid leake somewhere.
> Achim
That's what I said <g>
Achim