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Originally Posted by AV8R4AA
Remember this:
Young guys want powerful Engines
Old guys want powerful Brakes.
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Always interested in cars, I have run the whole gamut of car/truck types, and horsepower levels (during the old-school days without turbos & dual-turbos, when bigger carburetors and higher compression ratios were the way to go).
As for braking, I was still using 4-wheel drum brakes on the street on a 450 hp '69 Chevy C-10, and on the dragstrip when my '66 Chevelle was running 120 in the quarter mile (my second, higher horsepower big block ran 127 in the quarter, and I decided to install front 9" disc brakes).
Now, approaching 75, I still have two pickups with over a paltry 300 hp, my X5 has less hp than my wife's Lexus, but I find myself not caring about hp, any more. All our vehicles have good disc brakes, and the X5 and Lexus ES350 both have them front & rear, so stopping isn't a concern, either.
What concerns me mostly is having good, reliable cars, with good tires, but I have a growing concern about avoiding the increasing number of idiots on the road these days, with too much hp, too little driving skills, lack of responsibility (running stoplights, driving distracted, main-character syndrome types), etc.
That's why I'm testing/using using dash cams on my X5, and will be putting some on my wife's Lexus, soon. I trust no one, and want pictorial documentation in case of problems.
