Brake booster question

[WE3RX7]

Dont take this as me attacking you, however, big brakes actually DONT work on street cars as well as you'd think. They are intended for a car that gets heavy abuse on the track... if you're going to looks, cool.. but if you do it with intentions of having better street performance, they are not what you want.

[RETed]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

Dont take this as me attacking you, however, big brakes actually DONT work on street cars as well as you'd think. They are intended for a car that gets heavy abuse on the track... if you're going to looks, cool.. but if you do it with intentions of having better street performance, they are not what you want.

For someone who makes odd comments, I don't think you're qualified to make such statements.
True, "street performance" does not usually stress out the stock brakes, and most people who complain about the stock brakes are actually looking for better "brake feel".
A aftermarket (big) brake kit can mimic the stock brakes and give you better feel...if designed correctly.

Just to go over those odd things you've said...

I too will be going with a larger rotor, BB and MC.

You're another one that needs to GO READ THE BRAKE PRIMER LINK I POSTED.

If not to make bigger, but simply to improve upon 20+ year old technology!

What improvement?
Other than different brake pad materials, the brake design hasn't changed much over the past "20+" years.
You can argue about full-floating calipers versus multi-piston fixed calipers, but this technology has been around for decades.
About the only thing I noticed that changed recently is CCM rotors...on Porsches; since we're not messing with these, this point is moot.

Aside from improved braking for 500+whp,

The OP was talking about a non-turbo 20B.
Getting to 300hp should be alright, but pumping out 500+ out of such a set-up is very expensive.
Thus, this is not really applicable to this thread, and if you wanna talk about your set-up, why not start your own thread?


-Ted

[Christopher W.]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

Dont take this as me attacking you, however, big brakes actually DONT work on street cars as well as you'd think. They are intended for a car that gets heavy abuse on the track... if you're going to looks, cool.. but if you do it with intentions of having better street performance, they are not what you want.

You might in the end be right....

I still think a well thought out and designed system with higher quality parts than stock and good street pads will be better than stock on street.

I myself don't know how to design that system so I hope the people I am dealing with are not full of fluff.

Hopefully sometime in the fall I will have some sort of empirical evidence.

By the way Ted that's a great article in GRM.