Bigger brakes

Heheheh, the brakes on my Anglia are like that, I put Capri discs and twin pot calipers on the front so on a nice light car like that it STOPS! I only had them fade once when I was having a blat about with a Ferarri :D
 
Trifid said:
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How fast were you going on the first vid? Looked like 80/90mph from what I could see.
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Easily. I saw several dead children and decapitated pensioners in the background.
 
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! :p ;)
 
Simon said:
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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Any brakes that resist fade around Donny are damn good. Love the way your discs go blue when they're hot. :D
 
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
 
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! :p ;)
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Not on the Rover brakes :p 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'.
 
As we have had so many discussions with people doubting bigger brakes reduce stopping times
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This still makes me laugh, people can be a bit clueless :)
The standard Rover brakes were rubbish so I can well imagine yours are an improvement.
 
Simon said:
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
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Wow brilliant setup for £500, good work. :cool:
 
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