Miata Mailing List: March 1998, Message #219

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From:hbarta@wwa.com (Henry C. Barta)
Subject:Re: brakes (NMC)
Date:Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:10:53 +0000

> From realbig.com!miata Sun Mar  1 22:13:59 1998
> 
> The Miata brakes are not divided diagonally, but rather front and back.  As
> useless as the the dual diagonal system is, the front/back is even worse.
> So much for this so called safety enhancement.

    I'm surprised. I thought that diagonal was required.

    I had a failure on my '75 Rabbit. Where one of the lines runs
    through the firewall, (to run inside the car to the rear) the
    grommet wore out and the line chafed through. For unknown reasons,
    the failure was nearly complete. The pedal would go to the floor
    and the braking result was *much* less than half. So much for dual
    diagonal.  (Praise the Lord for the parking/ emergency brake which
    - on the Rabbit - was easily capable of locking up the rears.)


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Hank Barta
Team '95 Phred PEP
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