Cool dodgeman.I actualy thought the WA in his profile was western Aus.Anyhoo playing with rear disc setups is a lot of fun and definately not a step backwards so I say go for it unless the rules you're gunna race under say you cant.I belive the toyota corona RT141 rear brakes are nearly identical to the Bluebird ones I mentioned and I'm prety sure they were available in the US,but there are many ways to skin a cat(the important thing is to skin as many as possible)
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Rallytwit wrote:
General as someone with 19 years of road racing under my belt take this advice: Do not get hung up on a particular car type or feature such as disk rears. If you are looking to be competitvie the thing to do if you haven't, is go to your local track and see what cars are competitive and buy one already prepped.
It is much , much cheaper to buy a prepped car than to build one.
With that said if you're a Datsun / Nissan die hard and just want to have a bit of fun then great find a prepped 200SX and have fun with it.
I don't know what your racing experiance has been but even at local SCCA club races there will be some really good drivers and you will not likely be competitive at first. So get yourself a cheap reliable starter car that you can easily afford. You will find the serious club racer spending $750 to $1000 on a low tech ITB VW Golf. Even a cheap arse like me who runs a dog slow car just to have fun , is spending $400 a weekend.
Back to your original concern on disc rear brakes , contrary to popular belief going fast on a road course does not consist of roaring up to a corner and standing the car on it's nose. Trail braking is how you keep your momentum and that just requires keeping the brakes cool.
The only racers I know who have had problems with drum rear brakes are the Improved Touring RX2/3 and early RX7 guys and that's becuase the engines were making 60 HP more with the class not allowing brake upgrades.
Tom
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