RE: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use

["Dom Diaz" <dom_diaz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those were not Goodyear NCTs on the BTTF car. It also spun out when taking 
off, does your do that much? I wouldn't use a movie as a definitive comment 
on the capabilities of this car. You should drive yours back to 1955.

>From: "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use
>Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:16:20 -0600
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>Put in a copy of BTTF 1, just after Marty goes back in time and leaves
>Peabody's farm
>he is driving down an old country road and then slamms the brakes.
>The cars slides on the front wheels and then jerks to the left hard.
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>There is your DeLorean braking system.
>Of course, those were a set of Goodyear NCT's but the also on bone dry
>asphalt.
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>On a wet road your car will slide like it's on glass if you lock the front
>wheels.
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>Maybe John Hervey is to blame?
>I put on a set of his rebuilt brake calipers and they do work a lot better
>than the originals did.
>They will lock your wheels right up.
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>Yes it's true, I do drive like a mad man, but that was not the case when I
>was only
>going 30 MPH, and slid about 50 feet into the back of a BMW with zero
>control of the
>car in heavy rain.
>Bottom line, leave the car at home in the rain and take the OTHER car.
>- VB
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> >From: "Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>
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> >To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use
> >Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 02:49:23 -0000
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> >Either you are driving like a wild man or there is something wrong
> >with your brakes. I can hardly get my Pilots to break loose on wet
> >roads - forget dry pavement.
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> >Harold McElraft - 3354
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> >--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxx>
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> > > I NOW have the Pilot XGT's on my car,
> > > I bought them with the insurance money I got from WRECKING my car
> >in the
> > > rain
> > > when I was sporting the other cheapo crap that the previous owner
> >put on
> > > there.
> > > They had plenty of tread but no grip.
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> > > The thing is, no matter what tires you have the front end does not
> >have the
> > > weight to
> > > stop you, the front tires will lock up and you will go sliding.
> > > I wonder if there is an aftermarket ABS system that can be adapted?
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