Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #1471
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From: 	hsue <hal109@Mercury.mcs.net>

Subject: Re: ABS and autox, (was comments on SP8000 ..) (fwd)

Date: 	Thu, 9 Oct 1997 00:09:06 +0000



On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Chris Chu wrote:

> Back to miata stuff, I autoX with my '90 non-ABS. If I have the choice

> again to get the ABS, I still want my racer non-ABSed. For emergency in

> street use, ABS prevents loss of control during hard braking. But for

> autoXing where your path is predefined, you know in advance where you

> want to brake. In that case ABS doesn't help much and actually prevents

> certain tricks to be performed. For many people, miata's

> non-self-adjusting rear brakes seems retarded. But for me, it's a plus

> 'cause I can set up brake bias to my favor. When autoXing, I like to

> trail-brake into corners. So more rear bias is a must. Sometimes I

> DELIBERATELY lock up the rear into extremely tight corners to initiate

> full-throttle exit.



Good to hear another point of view on this topic! Well, if

I ever get good enough to try Chris' tricks, I can always pull the

ABS fuse. 



Harry