If the bloke down the pub is to be believed, we’d all be running our cars with sticky tyres, huge aluminium calipers and dustbin lid sized ventilated discs, suffering as we did so with rocksolid suspension. But it needn’t – and indeed shouldn’t – be like that.
I know my way around Jaguars and have owned them since a teenager. But it pays to listen. For me, the oracle in all things E-type, is Paul Brace at Eagle E-types. His sage advice has always been to keep things in balance, where never has cause and effect been more important. Fit huge brakes and ignore the tyres, then you could be in for some interesting skill tests should heavy braking overcome grip. Easy answer, fit super sticky tyres. The dominos are on the move, tyres will impact on the suspension, stiffen that up and loads are transferred into the car, so perhaps strengthened engineAnd all that ignores the ride comfort.
