Extreme...emergency stopping!!

[woody-oTT]

Who's ever tried emergenmcy stopping on purpose, i heard from someone recently who did it, he's nuts! I tried it at 20mph and my wife nearly cr@pped 'em !!! any one done higher!?

[mrmaggit]

70mph to 0 in a little over 70 feet, on a runway on a Ride/Drive day.

[reeso]

150 to 0 as some local wildlife was looking to cross the road (aham...I mean runway!)! I could not tell you the distance, but my neck hurt afterwards and it woke my other half up with a bit of a jolt!!!! I stopped 20feet from the said wildlife who seemed to acknoledge me and then crossed the road! Very strange, but she stopped very well indeed.

[dickkark]

mate of mine did a 60 to 0 in half a second,in his tuscan.
He did use some railings as brakes though,

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reeso said:

150 to 0 as some local wildlife was looking to cross the road (aham...I mean runway!)! I could not tell you the distance, but my neck hurt afterwards and it woke my other half up with a bit of a jolt!!!! I stopped 20feet from the said wildlife who seemed to acknoledge me and then crossed the road! Very strange, but she stopped very well indeed.

Yes I would say the brakes are good, when someone pulled out in front of me on a roundabout and I had to stop sharp. My neck hurt after too.

[cheeky]

woody-oTT said:

Who's ever tried emergenmcy stopping on purpose, i heard from someone recently who did it, he's nuts! I tried it at 20mph and my wife nearly cr@pped 'em !!! any one done higher!?

Surely everyone should do this early in their ownership of a car so they can be sure of its limits.

[J1mmyD]

mrmaggit said:

70mph to 0 in a little over 70 feet, on a runway on a Ride/Drive day.

WTF are you using as brakes???

[andyoleary]

cheeky said:

woody-oTT said:

Who's ever tried emergenmcy stopping on purpose, i heard from someone recently who did it, he's nuts! I tried it at 20mph and my wife nearly cr@pped 'em !!! any one done higher!?

Surely everyone should do this early in their ownership of a car so they can be sure of its limits.

Good point Woody, I was thinking the very same thing driving my Tusc yesterday so found a quiet spot and did some "testing".....

Andy

[Don]

Did 120 to 0 in not a lot of time.

At Goodwood. Going through Fordwater.

ing Pheasant. Would not ing decide which side of the track it was going to walk to. I was practically at a halt by the time the ing thing flew off.

Being at a halt on a race circuit in a 100mph-plus zone. Not good. In fact: Very bad. My 0 to 100 time was damn fast as I tried to, ahem, "Get The out of the WAY!"

Scaaaarryyy. But at least I didn't wreck the car...

[woody-oTT]

Gonna have a few goes i think on Thursday if i get the opportunity (on my own!) when i get it back with my nitrons on! not that that will make much difference, mid!

[GreenV8S]

The only emergency stop I've measured was ninety to zero in about 65 meters - that corresponds to an average of about 1.15G.

[widjit]

T350 @ tockwith airfield - played around doing 100 to 0 stops seeing which wheels lock and how good my control was pumping the brakes in a skid.

Did my confidence wonders, nice solid anchors.

[mrmaggit]

J1mmyD said:

mrmaggit said:

70mph to 0 in a little over 70 feet, on a runway on a Ride/Drive day.

WTF are you using as brakes???

Standard Griffith brakes. I was as surpised as you are! I drove at 70mph (indicated) down the runway, and as I passed a cone, applied full brakes. After stopping, I got out, and paced back to the cone, which was a little over 13 paces. I've only got little legs, so work the distance out for yourself!

I repeated the execise with Alec, the instructor, on board, and went about 8-10 feet further, but I did lock up the drivers side front wheel, which Alec chastised me for, as I did not have full control of the vehicle when the wheel was locked!

[TJW]

We have in the old 'V8S'. Almost going up the back of a chim 60 - 0 with locked brakes sliding sideways within 5car lengths or something tiny! was scary!