# The Ricer in 2008:

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**Category:** Builds\
**Created:** [February 25, 2008, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-ricer-in-2008/44000 "2008-02-25T12:02:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dmoffitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dmoffitt/32/7455_2.png) [@dmoffitt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dmoffitt)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-ricer-in-2008/44000/18 "2008-02-26T18:41:52Z")

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I know you don’t road race. TRUST ME I thank god every day I don’t have to share a track with people like you 😉 Thank god you wrench better than you type/speak.

From YOUR post, in the other thread about brakes (superblue)

> [@ATE superblue?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ate-superblue/43566/32):
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> I would think they would heat up quite a bit trying to stop 3500 lbs from a 135 mph roll. Maybe not enough to boil the fluid right away, but my point is I would have rather had better pad on it when that happen. All my point is I would rather be safe then sorry.

So how do you plan on stopping the car now?

PS, my comment was that you were going about things in the wrong order, IMO - removing a whopping 50LB from the brakes vs, say, a rear wiper delete or lexan… seems silly to me. TO ME. IN MY OPINION . . . Notice the modifiers there? I totally “get” why a small brake kits makes sense for a drag car (maybe drag-only not drag-but-we-also-street it but whatever). But to spend money on THAT first? That’s what I said was “silly” - but then again…

**PPS - why do you have a strut tower bar if you’re trying to save weight, and don’t road race?**

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