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The year with no Corvette production. There is only one surviving 1983 Corvette. The one 1983 Corvette is in the National Corvette Museum, (NCM), in ...

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Re: Brake experts.

Subject: Re: Brake experts.
by Jeffvette on 2010/6/10 20:55:15

Quote:

CentralCoaster wrote:
They won every SCCA Showroom Stock race from 85-87, so it was obviously good enough.

It wasn't until recently that everybody decided they need 14" rotors on their grocery getters.

Good enough for sprint races, but not more than that. Longer races required brake component changes. The track cars also took advantage of brake cooling and other methods to get more reliability out of them.

If the 84-87 Girling set up was so great, how come it was dropped?

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