Agree that engine braking coupled with brakes is more efficient
than relying on brakes alone.
I can't agree with you relying on engine brake alone without
stepping hard on yr brakes in an emergency. If you're doing that in
a low speed situation it's still relatively safe. anything in
excess of 90km/h and if you need to stop in a hurry, engine braking
will not be able to bring the car to slow down fast enough. i.e.
Car traveling at 100km/h in fifth gear, you can't use second gear
as the speed is too high to be able to engage. You will engage
third or forth gear but you still need to rely on brakes.
Many a times enthusiast upgrade the engine to gain speed but
neglect upgrading of stopping power n handling of car. All three
dynamics must be upgraded in unison, ignoring any part of the
equation is simply suicidal. You can speed and stop fast but if the
car's suspension can't handle, be prepared to hug trees. Since
you're driving crown, tell me how is it's suspension like. Very
often I see crowns wallowing along bends/corners like a sampan due
to its soft suspension, hence I asked if the braking n suspension
powerful as well earlier. If a crown execute an emergency braking
too fast, its front suspension will dip excessively and weight
distribution will be shifted to the front. Leaving the rear
end lighter and rear wheels with
little traction thus leading to fishtailing effects. You may also
experience wheel hop during hard braking which compromise traction
and steering control. If it happens on a wet surface, I dun
wanna imagine.
Those crowns driving at 130 are really a brave lot.
I'm a super relief, i toggle between mercs, sonatas and
crowns
Except being noisy, crowns are fun to drive
yes, most CDG crowns' suspensions CMI, macham like floating
in an emergency, we down shift the crown, only when it slow to a
suitable speed
then we dare to tap lightly on the brakes, not that we dun apply
brakes
as for sonatas, i always apply this theory too, when doing fast,
i always put manual.
when cornering, also can downshift by shifting the gear knob
towards you, theres a technic to down shift 2 gears, shall not
eleborate too much here ...
as for mers, being heavy, releasing the accelerator is
equalvalant to engine braking, very effective, so you seldom see
mercs kiss other car's back side
dat day i sat on that transcab crown, the suspension was tight,
like hugging the floor so thats why when that uncle did 130 no
laksa .... hahaha
PS when travelling fast, crowns and sonatas can manually
shift to gear 2, only cannot shift to gear 1
