crashes $200k custom built car because he didn't realize brakes were important.
This story is from a year ago, but I just found it, so whatever.
"It doesnβt take a degree in engineering to understand why riding nearly two-decade old, undersized brakes over several miles to constantly slow a 1,300 horsepower car is bad. Brake fluid, especially old brake fluid thatβs been sitting in equally old brake lines, can boil. And when it does, you lose your brakes. This is what happened to Stover and Davis, as the Comet lost its brakes at around 45-50 mph. Worse of all, it happened as they approached other cars stopped at a red light."
"The damage was pretty shocking. Despite the Mercury having four-point harnesses, both driver and passenger had opted to wear lap belts instead, which led to Davis hitting his face on the metal dashboard and Stover breaking his elbow."
Here's the video.
"too much grief has been put into this to put it into a wall, or do something stupid." - famous last words.
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wait so they bought a classic car and didn't check the brake fluid, lines, and pads and also were just wearing gut belts?? wtf they are lucky to walk away from this alive
edit: looks like they just showed up to give it a spin. kinda on the guy who built it for thinking it was totally okay to drive on a busy road riding those pathetic brakes and a hung throttle. still wearing only a lap belt on a car with no airbags is asking for a broken face
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with how trivial it is to run brake lines on a full frame car this is beyond r-slurred, especially since they put so much other work into it
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Running a properly balanced brake system is more effort than just chucking a worked ls into your shitbox and calling it a day though.
Brakes is the last part of my build im designing, still a work in progress but I'm not sending it out there on drum brakes
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Tbh even drums with fresh parts and new fluid/lines would be okayish
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with a booster please kthanks
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That's the fascinating part. Guy says he spent over a half a decade on this.
While doing all that work he never thought to upgrade the brakes?
Or put in a handbrake?
It's monumentally r-slurred. If he had died, it would be worthy of a Darwin award.
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