[Dan Case]

Originally Posted by rsk289

In the context of 1964, Cobra brakes were phenomenal, especially for such a light car. You can't compare them with a modern car.

Today it is still a real good idea to check your mirrors before standing on the brakes if using modern material pads in original systems. More than a few Cobras have been tapped in the rear because they could slow down faster than whatever was behind them could and that assumes the original hydraulic brake light switches have not gone bad. (Go bad, yes. For whatever reason a switch that trips at a few psig of line pressure when new might take 90 psig of line pressure years later. By the time you have 90 psig in the brake system you are probably slowing down a lot and yet your brake lights still might not be on. Back in the 1980s the Mid American Shelby meet team would warn original Cobra and 427 Cobra owners to check to see how much braking was required to get the tail lamps on before heading out in an open track event at Hallet. Recipe for rear end coachwork rearrangement. Light car slowing down quickly but tiny hard to see anyway tail lamps not on yet. Oops. )