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Old 12-26-07, 05:45 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Talking Re: Braake Caliper Placement

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Originally Posted by gt40fran View Post
The Turbine wheels on the Mk4 were supposed to help brake cooling but were proven to be totally ineffective ....especially when a certain race team installed the wheels on the wrong side and noticed no difference in performance,..... whoops.
Fran: I was at KarKraft "in the day". The vanes looked good, but came at a huge cost to us, requiring two more sets of tooling, or two sets for the front and two for the rear. The red and blue knock-offs was a more practical idea--red for left and blue for right. How is that for a political statement way before its time?
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