[Shotimes] Re: brakes

[Ron Porter]

Well, it goes beyond the parts themselves. It's how they're sized, car
weight, weight transfer, etc. Can't say that a given brand that works in one
place will work the same somewhere else. With the Corvettes, it probably is
the pads as Mark mentioned, but why? Corvettes have had braking problems
since they first started racing them in the late '50s! Still too much car
weight? Not enough brake cooling? 

Much like the '96 brake upgrade to a Gen 1 or 2. They just seem to work
better on the older cars then they do on a Gen 3, even running the same
pads/fluid. Dunno why but they do. Only real differences are the different
m/c (but maybe the internals are the same?) and some dimensional
differences. Although the weight is close. Maybe the weight transfer
difference or something?

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Christian Andretta
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:20 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: brakes


Panoz uses those same calipers on a couple cars.  Well those and a bunch of
other Cobra parts.

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:07 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: brakes


> 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.
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