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Great job stopping and not plowing into the car in front of you, but I have to put a disclaimer on what you said: "Naturally I threw it into first, let out the clutch and SLAMMED on the brakes." If you actually did it in this order (gear - clutch out - brake), you probably increased your stopping distance. The time it took to make the gear change, let the clutch out (even "dropping" it out) was wasted when it could have been spent maximum braking. Your stopping distance from 60 mph (with those upgraded brake items) is probably on the order of 110 feet or so. So from 30 it's at a maximum 55 feet, probably even less. If you spent one second (being generous here - I don't think anyone is quite that fast) shifting and clutching, you wasted approximately 44 feet (@ 30 mph) until you hit the brakes. So if all my assumptions are correct, you approximately doubled your braking distance by shifting/clutching. Not to mention the bad things that can happen to your tranny by doing that. Just my $0.02
-Jason disclaimer: if any of my assumptions are incorrect, then you can probably throw my entire train of thought off a cliff :)
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