Bigger brakes

Simon · 9 Apr 2006 at 16:06

I reckon normal brakes would have started to fade during this one stop. As we have had so many discussions with people doubting bigger brakes reduce stopping times I thought I may aswell post this of my car stopping

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Simon · 9 Apr 2006 at 17:26

Red button is just manual fan override. No nitrous I'm afraid

The brakes do sounds very strange when braking hard as they are only plain disks, I like it though

Simon · 9 Apr 2006 at 17:52

AmDaMan said:
Does it wheelspin badly on gear change there?

Nah that's the clutch, traction is fine in 2nd gear in the dry.

Had been giving it stick for a lot of runs before that and its only a standard clutch despite having 60hp and 80lb/ft more put through it than a standard car.

Chop chop, what car is yours? These brakes will do that kind of stopping all day.

Simon · 9 Apr 2006 at 18:13

chopchop said:
astra 1.4, theres the difference, my car wouldnt do it all day long lol, but it does it when u need it.
so do you not get any fading from faster stops ?

Ive never had any fade to be honest, even on 20mins of donington it was still braking hard from 130mph on the back straight into the 30mph chicane.

They really are awesome.

Simon · 9 Apr 2006 at 18:44

Rears are upgraded from 240 to 260mm.

They don't do as much but it is still important to get a decent bias from front to back.

Simon · 9 Apr 2006 at 21:34

Sig should help you out

Just looked at some other vids we took, there one where I go from 0 to 75mph and slam the brakes on back to a stop. Only takes 12seconds :eek:

http://www.gcox.info/Simon/0-75-0.wmv

Simon · 10 Apr 2006 at 08:51

Tim said:
Is your windscreen cracked?

Yeah, massive brick hit it and it grew right along the bit of screen that the heaters blow hot air onto.

Simon · 10 Apr 2006 at 12:41

Cheers for the comments.

Dave, They are a custom brake setup rather than an off the shelf kit: Wilwood dynalite 4pot calipers (1kg each :cool:

) with 310mm x 32mm disks. I had the bells made up to a drawing and same with the caliper brackets.

With the braided hose fittings (fitted to the goodridge braided hoses i already had) and correct spec bolts and K nuts for fitting the disk to bell and calipers to the car it worked out at just over £500.

Bonus is that replacement pads and disks are very cheap. £30 a set of pads, £49 a disk

Simon · 10 Apr 2006 at 12:52

Oracle said:
TBF, your old BRAKES (please people, if you're going to post comments about a subject you think you know about, at least spell it right!) probably would have stopped you just as quickly.....your tyres didnt loose grip after all!

Not on the Rover brakes

They would have faded a bit. Also that wasn't the first hard stop those brakes had done. 4pots on big disks tend to be a lot more progressive. Floating single pots seem a lot more 'grabby'.