Yeah and Nikkola Tesla was such a successful business man.

I'm going to put an Oppo post together later to organize it and we'll go from there.

I don't think Elon Musk is as innovative as Christian von Koenigsegg, no.

Basically someone more deserving of the Tesla name.

Maybe we should put together a Jalop team with a kickstarter?

This is the #1 car thing I want to do outside of the US. Not go to Le Mans (#4), Not go to the Nurburgring (#3), Not go to a WRC event in Europe (#2). No, I want to drive an economy car across all manner of terrain covering half the globe.

I'm getting really shocked at how many people this happens to.

Step 1: Be broke
Step 2: Buy the cheapest pads you can because that's all you can afford
Step 3: Do the fastest brake job you can because you work seven days a week and make less than minimum wage
Step 4: ?
Step 5: Profit

Thanks, it's refreshing for people to be honest on the internet. Yeah, my biggest fear was a flat tire.

Yeah, I was making so little money as a contractor minimum wage would seem like winning the lottery, since then I buy quality brake parts.

Oh my gosh, that is nuts. I get people badgering me about how unsafe some of the cars I've limped home before are but I usually try to get them remedied asap.

Once I quit the paper route and put proper brakes on the car from the paper route it went three years without a brake job and the car that shot the pad out I had for less than a couple months when that happened.

Yeah, I was making very little on the paper route so I kept buying the cheap garbage.

This was my mother in laws car.

I want mine to carry 2,200 lbs of downforce.

I don't imagine a lot of NYC taxis hitting 60 all that often.

True but engine braking would be more stable.

I don't think you understand how severe this was. full stop, deliver newspaper, wot to 60 mph, full stop, repeat 160 times every mile on a rural paper route and try to complete the whole thing in less than 4 hours including the time to pick up your papers and prepare them.

I was doing it myself and I was buying the cheapest brake pads and did not touch the rotors. That said nyc Taxis got nothing on the type of driving I was doing, it would be more comparable to racing.

The car belonged to my mother in law. I treated it like a rally stage.