Originally posted by: jRaskell
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
What I said before still stands. You're wrong, and no amount of attempting to weasel out of it will change that fact.
ZV
I am only
wrong when my comments are taken out of context.
I said engine braking was pointless. That comment was made in response to a post that was recommending engine braking to the OP
apparently as a means to prevent the brake smoking that occurred as a result of his spirited driving.
I do not believe for one second that, if the OP had done everything he could to maximize his engine braking, and changed nothing else about the way he drove, that his brakes would not have smoked. There are only two options available to him to prevent that in the future. 1, stop driving that aggressively. Or 2, upgrade the brakes. Engine braking would NOT have significantly changed the outcome of that situation, and as such it was pointless to recommend it.
Of course, I originally thought it was adequate to just post a single line to that affect, as opposed to several paragraphs, but clearly that is one thing I was in fact wrong about.