Wheels on fire

[crbox]

Just found this pic from the San Remo rally in 2000, when ourselves in the red Healey, behind the Volvo, had just come down a mountain pass (the Gavia I think), to this small village at the bottom.
This pic is interesting because it looks like the smoke is coming from the van at the front. However if you look closely, the smoke is coming from ours and the Volvo's front pads, which were burning nicely.
The Volvo (PV544) was several roads below us and was driven with immense gusto. These are great cars to drive at high speeds and increasingly popular. You would have needed to have been there, to blieve the huge horizontal tornadoes ofpblack brake dust spewing sideways out of it's front wheels.
Sadly I kept my foot on the brake too long at one of the stops and warped the discs.

Be aware and don't do this when your discs are hot!

[john2443]

One of my friends navigated for one of the classic rallys in the Alps in a 2 stroke Saab and was getting 'a bit concerned' coming down the hills with no engine braking due to the freewheel and very hot brakes!

[restoman]

Cooling the overheating brakes of a Zephyr / Zodiac on the Monte Carlo Rally in the 1950s . . .

[crbox]

restoman said:

Cooling the overheating brakes of a Zephyr / Zodiac on the Monte Carlo Rally in the 1950s . . .

Great pic. Drums especially need cooling as when they expand the distance between them and the shoes increases, causing what we experience as brake fade.