On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Bob Mankin wrote:
> Bridges, Bruce wrote:
> >
> > George,
> > Right on. Youll need to change your email address now. The R/T just seems
> > to get better as you drive! Just remeber its a truck once in a while
> > instead of a Viper (it becomes obvious under extreme braking conditions).
>
> Bruce,
>
> On the braking topic, did you do anything to upgrade yours as yet? I've
> got a set of carbon pads from Porterfield that I haven't had time to
> install. I'm hopefull that will help. Gotten close to being in trouble
> with a quick stop more than once<g>.
>
I haven't had a really good look at the newer bodystyle, but would it
be possible to mount 2 ram-air inlets in the air dam area, and route it
through the wheelwell and to brake disk? (Similar to the airraid ram air
setup except you're using it to cool the brakes instead of the engine.)
Sounds like it would be a relatively cheap thing to try, but I have no idea
what kind of impact it would have on braking performance (if any). Probably
couldn't hurt, unless you drove through a cloud of WD-40. ;-) A lot of
high-buck performance cars have vents that direct cool air to the brakes, so
why not do the same?
-Jon-
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