Brake Up-grades MR2 Components Vented Rotors

[Petros]

This is just a detailed description of what I did to my car. Anytime you work on brakes, or even if you never work on your brakes, you have a certain amount of risk in making sure they are maintained, and the maintenance is done correctly. You do your own repairs, or modifications, at your own risk, always.

I recently had to make a panic stop on dry road, sudden stop in moving traffic. My stopped faster than I expected with lots of room to spare, no doubt due to the extra stopping power. It would have been close with my old brakes.

[splatterdog]

It is a very detailed description. Well done.

You forget though, common sense is nearly extinct as is personal responsability. How do you think we have all kinds of stupid warning labels on nearly everything? Things like a chainsaw warning- do not try to stop chain with hands or genitals. Pop bottle cap injury warnings. Things just cooked or brewed may be hot. Or my favorite- if you can't read this do not use product.

I like Red Green's disclaimer given when making a boat out of pop bottles and duct tape and the potential of having too much power for the craft. I wouldn't recommend it, but you can do whatever you want.

BTW, I have been blamed and expected to reimburse car owners that call for free tech help and can't fix their problem. Example- My pedal is low, could it be my master cylinder? My reply- yes it can. What do you want for free guessnostics when I'm on the clock? haha Sometimes I would give them the phone# for the local votech if they were a real jerk. No problem for me losing a customer that never was or would be. This site is about my only benefactor of free info. At least until someone blames me for something they did!

Any lawyers here like to comment? Oh that's right, it's awfully hard to catch up to an ambulance with 62 horsepower!

Sorry, I'm rambling....

[ARCHINSTL]

Any lawyers here like to comment? Oh that's right, it's awfully hard to catch up to an ambulance with 62 horsepower!

GREAT LINE ! ! !
I'm going to pass it on to my lawyer friend. This guy owns a 1935 Boyer Marvel fire engine and can actually work on it - but he's still a legal tech (he hates that term ). He kids me aboout the T4WD.
Q. Why don't lawyers drive T4WDs?
A. Because you can't catch an ambulance with only 62 HP...
Tom M.

[takza]

Never buy cheap friction! I do not/will not get pads or shoes from the zone. Chinese rotors are hard to avoid these days, some are better than others. Who knows what ingredients they put in their pads. Lead seems to be a primary material in most everything they make. haha

Many moons ago at a place I was working there was an issue about Chinese materials being radioactive from being recycled from material from old reactors...then re-imported....think this was brass. So who knows? Not the Am consumer for sure. Probably much more out there than drywall and dog biscuits. There are around 8,000 chemicals used in US products that haven't been tested for toxicity?

[davidlucasbarnes]

Things like a chainsaw warning- do not try to stop chain with hands or genitals.

now that is f-ing funny. i like the visual i have for it. when you consider the size and weight of most ambulances they do pretty well but even my terc could beat the ambulance in a 0-60 race.