Disappointed,

J-c-c said
Not wanting to take anything out of context, where did you elaborate on that blurb, so I can enlighten myself?
My maybe related phrase on the topic is "brakes stop the wheel, tires stop the car", and I am not the original author in full disclosure.

Yes, my basic explanation when people were claiming, "drum brakes don't work". I said if they can skid all 4 tires, and evenly, you won't be able to stop any faster. Indeed, you want to brake until right before the tires skid, but hard to know thus the old "pump the brakes" (sort-of what ABS does). Raised a fuss, much from people who can't process the logic of "if". One guy, with an engineering degree, went on about with large sticky drag-race tires, drum brakes couldn't skid the tires. Yes, "if" doesn't mean "always". Main problem with drum brakes is they take longer to cool off after a braking event compared to vented rotors.

Re the cooling fuss, that was when I disputed the strange idea, widely-spread by car hobbyists, that adding a restrictor plate in the coolant flow can keep an engine from overheating. Strangely, the thermostat works the other way (opens more to increase cooling). Their figuring is "coolant flows thru the radiator too fast to cool down, so have to slow the flowrate". You can find a blog by a Robertshaw engineer (makes T-stats) who was amazed when he saw this idea, and tracked it down to a 1920's car where excessive water pump pressure pushed open the radiator spring cap to lose coolant, thus the fix. Also, many strange ideas of how a T-stat works. Many think it continually opens and closes while driving. Also few understand "proportional control droop" which makes your coolant run slightly warmer under high load (T-stat requires slightly higher temp to open more).