At 09:33 PM 7/7/98 CDT, you wrote:

>ok, remember the thread about how far it took to stop from 70 mph??

Kudo's Joel!; nicely presented info...Last month's R&T had an interesting
comment ref coming to a stop:  the question was, should one wait & brake
hard, or 'float' the brakes to a gentle stop, since a given quantity of
work is done irrespective of which method one uses (assuming one has a
choice, of course!).  The answer was 'yeah the same energy is dissipated,
but by braking light that energy has more *time* to be scrubbed off, thus
letting the brakes run cooler, which in turn means they'll last longer (&
you won't warp yer rotators!).

Austin (with 103K on the original brakes - yes, I drive 'roun town too)