[Shotimes] Cheap tires for a 91 SHO

[ianf@eden.rutgers.edu]

that's because they have those silly "PBR/Baer <-similar to the cobra" 
twin piston floating calipers. 

Actually, the Z06 would probably stop fine with a set of decent pads. 
The brakes although not fixed multi piston calipers, should be adequate 
for that car. Wilwood has a C5 front and rear brake setup though. 

Ian
"becoming a caliper expert everyday"
forged wilwood superlites, coming soon. :)


> Very good points. What many people don't understand is that the stock 
brakes
> on virtually every car made can either lock up the tires (non-ABS) or 
engage
> the ABS for a panic stop. Better brakes won't change this (nor 
shorten the
> stopping distance), it's the tire quality that determines the stopping
> ability of almost every car. 
> 
> Putting better brakes on a SHO won't help the ultimate stopping
> ability....where it helps is in repeated hard stops, as in a track
> situation. Sure, better brakes can have a different "feel" for partial
> braking, but this does not improve all-out stopping ability.
> 
> Todd Serota, who owns/runs the TracQuest events, has found this with 
many
> cars that run at the events. Everyone is impressed with the z06 
Corvette for
> handling, but the stock brakes still go away quite quickly. They may 
feel
> very good on the street, but after a few laps the Z06s lose brakes, 
whereas
> the Vipers and Porsches keep on truckin'.
> 
> Ron Porter 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-
admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:17 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Cheap tires for a 91 SHO
> 
> Bingo Bingo.  Tires stop a car, not brakes.  Buddy at work just 
bought a '03
> Accord 240 hp V6.  Figured out my ASA rims dual bolt pattern fit, so 
we
> pulled off the skinny OEM 205/60 rubber, and stuck the 225/50 V700 
race
> rubber on 7.5" rims.  Obviously the car would go around a corner a 
bunch
> faster, but nathan couldn't beleive how well the car stopped.  With 
the
> g-tech, we were getting 30-40 feet shorter stopping distances between 
the 2
> different wheels/tires.  It was obvious how many more g's the car 
would pull
> with the sticky tires.  granted, that's an extreme example (crappy OEM
> skinnies vs fat wide race rubber) but even sticky street rubber would 
make a
> difference.  10-20 feet on a stop can save your life, or your car.
> 
> My 89 (on the way to the track running the 450 nittos) won't stop 
worth a
> turd.  The tires lock up when you barely breath on the pedal.  With 
the
> nitto drag radials, or the race tires, it's like night and day.
> 
> The Yokohoma ES100's have good straight line traction (braking and
> acceleration), especially considering the cost of the tire.
> 
> mark
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