Temeraire

These meets really get things going. Most of you know my locker standpoint. Even though mine is not only unnoticable switched off but, Sometimes not noticable switched on too. Breathers have fixed that.
Edit : do not even consider the lunchbox clicky locker. They are fun offroad but a real pain on road and in the snow straight out dangerous. 

Temeraire has traction control as standard so a full locking system is to my mind a bit much. Hence the quaife as it's able to work with and be supplemented by the traction control. Call it laziness if you want but I like the idea of the car doing the fiddling bits around the edges and leaving me to focus on the line through the obstacle, the momentum I expect to need and general situational awareness. For me the novelty of pushing buttons to make things go clunk and deciding what's the best gear to select has long worn off.

Remember, the traction control is reactive, it has to sense the loss of traction before it activates, selectable lockers allow you to engage them proactively, and with judicious use, can be kinder to the driveline.

So as I think I mentioned elsewhere a few weeks ago I changed the brake fluid with a high temperature alternative, ATE typ 200, it's a dot4 but a racing version. Yesterday was the first drive and as usual after sitting for nearly a month temeraire gave me the usual protest at having to move, tyres slightly out of round, surface rust on brake rotors, the usual. Once she had decided to warm up and cooperate I've been able to assess the new fluid and it's definitely an improvement, up in the dales where we have some fairly significant hills there is no longer a sense of needing to lock out the higher gears on long descents for fear of excess heat build up in the brakes. In fact what's becoming apparent is that actually more heat is needed for better bite. Or put it another way just pottering around isn't good for initial bite. I'm starting to wonder if the slotted black diamond discs are actually more aesthetic than practical on a road car? Don't get me wrong compared with spare jimny who has blueprint discs and pads the ebc green stuff and black diamond combo on temeraire is exceptional however compared with the stock brakes on bellerophon that initial look at the pedal wrong and head for the windscreen sensation is missing especially from cold cold. I'm happy enough with the wear rate of the black diamond under the green stuff compared with when I just had blueprint discs which the green stuff just eat through for fun. So if I do change the rotors it will only be back to plain ebc ones. I can hear the peanut gallery calling me to swap to vented fronts and discs on the back but really I'm not convinced, the vented front is not a noticeable difference in diameter so therfore is only a heat management upgrade and as far as I can see the main advantage of rear discs is mud contamination in drums not really a braking effect increase?