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Old 10-27-2001, 09:48 AM
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My opinon, eh? That's dangerous.

First off, I'm not a big fan of ABS so I might be the wrong person to ask. I've done fine for years without it on any car, and the brakes and tires on the Cobra work great. Car also has adjustable proportioning valve for dialing in front/rear disks.

ABS on a Cobra? Depends again on how you intend to drive the car, and your honest assesment of your own driving skills and needs. Would ABS provide a specific benefit under a driving condition you enounter? My thoughts are, you probably don't need it, and it wouldn't be worth the effort and expense.

ABS tends to be most helpful on wet, icy, or snowy road conditions. Wifes car (Buick) has ABS. Tested it once to check operation after installing new brakes. Had to find an otherwise unoccupied stretch of wet road to do hard braking on. They work. Under the hardest dry road braking I've tried, the ABS doesn't kick in. Towing a trailer, it might.

ABS is a pretty sophisticated system, and before attempting an install, I'd want to be intimately familiar with how it works, and diagnostic procedures. Absolutely no short cuts trying to port this over from a late model Lincoln. This would limit you to cars that use late model suspensions that late model Lincoln parts would bolt onto.

My opinion. Now where's my 35 cents & coffee.
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