Abs

[GregWeld]

I have ABS in the Lotus 2 Eleven.... now --- here's a factory that should have their shizzle together right? But if you spin the poor little Lotus -- the ABS goes into ICE mode and you have no stopping power what-so-ever....

I can disable the ABS by simply disconnecting the right front sensor... and when I did that -- a test drive down my street had the fronts locking up at 25mph and barely any braking pressure applied. In talking with other racers that run this same car - they all said they leave the ABS hooked up - even though they run the risk of going into ICE mode. Go figure.

My point is --- ABS is pretty complicated -- and even more so for track cars... There's lots of discussion about this in Mark Stielows post about that system on the new Z/28 = and Mark knows a thing or two about suspensions etc.

I'm not sure I'd want to try to tackle custom building a system when even the big time engineers struggle to get it right.


I just went back to look to see what was said in that thread regarding ABS -- and I guess the discussion was really more about traction control.... and the difficulties surrounding that system in track modes... but there is also mention of ABS... and a couple of different systems a guy can buy I guess.