zurno wrote:
nice, how much do those brackets cost?
$300 bucks roughly for the entire set (front and rear)... Cheaper than big brakes though! I also picked up SS lines and brand new pads all the way around.
trahma wrote:
I'm not trying to be a hater at all, but does this give any performance gain? I'd assume with the same pad size, you're not going to gain much.
trahma wrote:
I'm not trying to be a hater at all, but does this give any performance gain? I'd assume with the same pad size, you're not going to gain much.
No, I know what you mean. I don't thing the pad size on the focus is much bigger anyhow, but the important fact is that you are moving the caliper/pad out farther from the center of the wheel. So really the gains are all in the leverage, like how big wheels hurt braking performance.
mars wrote:
is it just me or wat, but that rotor looks weird.......... on the top looks like the rotor not evenly round....?
I think its the angle of the pic. I see what your saying tho...
Any full car shots? Did you dyno last year at dB?
Yeah I wasn't at ground level completely I was just crouching... I was the one who dynoed last year at DB.
No "good" full car shots with the brakes yet. I still need to do the rear brakes and then get it cleaned up and finish painting the rest of my calipers before I take any full car pics
I would assume that the larger circumference means less heat buildup as well since the braking surface area on the rotor is larger than a rotor of smaller circumference. Thus longer distance to travel per revolution, more time to cool, more area to dissipate heat from the rotor and less chance of the pads performance deteriorating do to excessive heat transfer from rotor to pad.
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Looking to homebrew Supercharge my car, me and Corky Bell.
grocerygetter wrote:
I would assume that the larger circumference means less heat buildup as well since the braking surface area on the rotor is larger than a rotor of smaller circumference. Thus longer distance to travel per revolution, more time to cool, more area to dissipate heat from the rotor and less chance of the pads performance deteriorating do to excessive heat transfer from rotor to pad.
