Cutting Brakes - Cutting Corners
In the competition rockcrawler scene, Becca and Dustin Webster rely on cutting brakes for many different technical maneuvers in the rocks. They have even found that by using cutting brakes in their Red Bull-sponsored buggy they no longer need to use sway bars to control body roll. They only run selectable ARB Air Lockers and they claim that when they apply a rear cutting brake it forces the air shock at that corner to shorten while the opposite air shock lengthens on the unstopped wheel. However, on the front it works just the opposite with the braked-wheel corner shock lengthening and the unstopped-wheel corner shock shortening. This seems very complicated, but in competition these little tricks seem to help them.
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