Brakes perfomance testing.

[mick taylor]

I remember looking at some car mags, one had a XB Falcon 250 and showing in the test back then was the stopping distance from 80km/h 50km/h. so why don't they state such nowadays ?

It would be interesting for me to have such information and not only that but also what other pad materials tested would prove.

The brakes on my car are stock still and they are as powerful as that if one sitting passenger did not have a seat belt on I am sure one could end up putting their head through the windscreen at 110km/h I even smashed the foot rest the first time I jumped on the brakes full on at 110km/h.

Now I have used many different brake pads over the years from stock types to HP types and I know that most people have no idea what such a difference such can do for braking performance. and I have not even started talking past just the pad material here yet.

So I first got a XG Falcon ute in 1993 and they had shocking brake performance with brake fade easy done they were so hopeless that from 210km/h cold they would get total brake fade by 60km/h if you went for it, so then I asked around what is the go with such rubbish brakes remember they are 4 wheel disc. but every brake specialist I talked to were all idiots they put in X and then I come back and say it's much the same rubbish, so then I picked a metal king as that was the top shelf that I could get hp pad from Bendix for the XG and wow I had great brakes now. then I got a 1995 VS Commodore and put the top shelf hp and boy they were much better again. I am sure that from 200km/h to stop with just such pads I could stop in the distance that a normal car could from 110km/h. but can anyone prove this is a fact or reasonable assumption.

But I have not seen any testing proving such, only rubbish like 120km/h or so over others , but the big difference is truly in the 200km/h story , so have a stock ABS ED Falcon say with std pads and all and then move up the ladder from their to prove the point of facts reality.

I have seen old test with motorbikes with braking test as well, even dirt bikes were tested.