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<blockquote data-quote="blacksheep-1" data-source="post: 14160668" data-attributes="member: 33936"><p>Jeez I hate to bring this up because I know I'm going to get flamed, but here goes. Back in the 70s we were doing a lot of autocrosses with corvettes, we built a highly modded one that had fiberglass springs front and rear, the fuel tank and radiator was in the back of the car and it had (vented) drum brakes. People asked us why and the reason was because at most autocrosses you just don't build up a lot of heat and discs weren't necessary. the drums had vented backing plates and we drilled the drums as well so they were about 30% the weight of the discs that everyone was running. Just something to think about but I've never built an autocrass car with what would be considered "big brakes".</p><p></p><p>Let the flaming begin......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blacksheep-1, post: 14160668, member: 33936"] Jeez I hate to bring this up because I know I'm going to get flamed, but here goes. Back in the 70s we were doing a lot of autocrosses with corvettes, we built a highly modded one that had fiberglass springs front and rear, the fuel tank and radiator was in the back of the car and it had (vented) drum brakes. People asked us why and the reason was because at most autocrosses you just don't build up a lot of heat and discs weren't necessary. the drums had vented backing plates and we drilled the drums as well so they were about 30% the weight of the discs that everyone was running. Just something to think about but I've never built an autocrass car with what would be considered "big brakes". Let the flaming begin...... [/QUOTE]
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