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Old 07-27-2013, 05:39 PM   #15
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For all Toyota's noise about how this car was "ready for the track", those brake issues Edmunds relates tell a different story.
Isn't the car SC...?
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How did they manage 184 hp on the stock car? Maybe these cars aren't fully broken in until near 20k miles.
Every dyno and testing situation is different even from the same brand of dyno to another dyno of the same brand. Humidity, air temp, oil temp, software version theres a million variables.
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Isn't the car SC...?
Hardly relevant to brake performance -adds what, 50 lb?
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Hardly relevant to brake performance -adds what, 50 lb?
Still a thing to note, more power equals more use of brakes. Thats a lot of power in these small cars of ours.
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