Scott Ramsay wrote:Thank you everybody! After a lot of thought and discussions with many Registry members I have settled on a 1963-1965 for my new daily driver. I made an offer on one, but the PPI was not good so offering on another one tomorrow. Hope this one sticks!
A '62 is the same as a '63. The thing with brake fade (which drums are more susceptible to) is you hit something (have an accident) when otherwise you wouldn't.
Disc brakes are a worthwhile improvement- that's why Porsche and the whole world changed. If you are going to use the car as a daily driver ...
Drum brakes are fine if working properly and adjusted. They have a capacity of absorbing 200% Kinetic energy the vehicle can produce. Disc are better, but the drums brakes are way over engineered for the maximum energy, the horizontal velocity vector, a 356 can produce. Porsche was the only company in the 50s-60s to do the math on the brakes as part of the entire power plant design.
John Brooks
62 Roadster
66 912
84 Cab
getting pushed around in porsches since 1965