Man one guy has a trouble with his car and now nobody wants power brakes. The Ford Mustang comes or came with hydroboost for a long time. Alot of heavyduty diesel trucks come with hydroboost. There has been no massive recall. If you watch the pedal camera they install in the road race cars for TV, Say Nascar at Watkins Glen, The drivers give the manual brake an initial pump to check the brakes and set them up to for the turn before they really get on them.
I was at the autocross on friday and I saw them testing the track in the supernova and the car has a fuel issue on left hand turns. Whether it is the carb or the suction line on the tank who knows. The bottom line is when your doing an autocross event in that manner and running hard like that you are right on the edge of disaster with those stupid concrete or water barriers. One slight mistake and you in the barriers. If it was any other autocross event not a car show there would be space and it would be no big deal. The course they had this weekend, I believe was the biggest yet and kinda tight in that corner. On the turn Ty had his brush with the barrier. I don't think the brakes failed totally, he has a less ratio since he has the assist and the track was so tight there was no room to go since he was pushing it hard and the track was so fast.
When you push cars hard things break, if things are not stress your not pushing hard enough. I'm surprised this in the first and only incident with damage.
just my 2 cents, I have manual brakes in some cars and will have assist brakes in others. They each have there application when set up properly.
Rodger
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