[Shotimes] Wilwood Caliper Brake Pads

[Ron Porter]

In reality, it seems that they really don't have much need for great brakes,
anyway (except when they run the road courses). When I attended an Elliot
Sadler test day at MIS last year, I saw the cars had nice Brembo calipers.
Probably good for weight savings too, I suspect.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:32 PM
To: shotimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Wilwood Caliper Brake Pads


Along those same lines, some winston cup teams will run lower friction pads
at restrictor-plate superspeedways, to cut down on any drag the rotor/pad
cause from being against each other buzzing around the track WOT.  If you
ever watch them qualify for a superspeedway race, you'll see a "pump your
brakes on pit" or "don't touch the brakes" note on the steering wheel for
the driver.  They'll spread the pads as far away from the rotors as
possible, so there is no contact at all, just so they can run a couple of
laps wide open with the restrictor plate motor and get rid of as much drag
as possible.  That and they run small calipers and thin rotors (at the rear)

mark
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