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Old 05-30-2014, 11:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Leroy Rochester View Post
I was actually going to come back and mention that... I've seen a fair number of crazy failures of all types at HPDE events, but not on the vintage race cars.

We had to change the seals on the caliper pistons every session when I ran the J56 4 piston brakes on the front because I didn't have a set of the sexy insulated pistons (which is why we went to the CNC brakes fairly quickly!)...

I didn't mean to say that I hadn't seen it, to dismiss it. Just an off the top of the head comment and absolutely related to the level of maintenance that goes into running a heavy, high power race car.
Yeah I got that. It maybe an overlooked service part. I am more concerned about spindle failure than bearing failure. He is running a lot faster now.
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