[Shotimes] Interesting Rear Brake Upgrade

[Jim and Debbie Leyden]

If you wanted to do that you could use the early SHO rear calipers that were
for the ventilated rotors.  You would not increase the swept area but you
would be moving the point of contact further from the axis.  This would give
the brakes a leverage advantage and allow you to retain the E brakes.

but again, do you REALLY need more braking on the rears?  When I upgraded to
11.6 front brakes I had to bias the brakes more to the front to keep the
rears from locking premeturely.  Maybe if you were to make a kit that used
14" or larger front rotors you might need need larger brakes on the rear but
all cars have larger front brakes for a reason.

Jim
'93 MTX


-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Timothy Metzger
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2003 3:21 PM
To: Kevin & Cheryl Airth; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Interesting Rear Brake Upgrade


We talked about it on SHOforum with the guy making them. Good upgrade if
your an ATX or a Race only car because if your daily driver is an MTX you
lose the E-brake so the chance of rolling around is much greater and any
state with mechanical inspections will fail you without an E-brake.
Though if we could figure out way to transfer over some other brake
calipers with the E-brake built in or splice on a new ebrake system. It
would be better.

Tim Metzger
94 Opal Frost MTX
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