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Originally Posted by OpTimuS
hello again! 
I realise that TG is not the be all and end all but what they offer allows me to buy a certain amount of suspension parts instead of fabricating all of them myself. Thus speding up my build.......... I am really sick of researching **** on the intermanet. But better off doing it first time round than rebuilding my creation in a couple of months.
Any way about the brakes.
I have e-mail wilwood and another ob of brake guys. I wanted to see what they could offer and basically this is what the brake guru's said:
On the road you NEED a short throw high-pressure MC. The MC must deliver maximum performance (which is derivitive of your effective disc ratio, and lever ratio) because you have a reliable sturdy braking platform (road-car), and you have a solid footing (asphalt). The harder the pedal and the shorter the throw the more feel you get, and the braking performance is increased to achieve a realistic goal.
Off-road (trail-rig) a 1" master cylinder will serve the purpose of a standard 80-series set-up (single pot rear, and quad pot fronts). By adding a further set of quad pot caliper I will effectively decrease system pressure for an idential pedal effort due to the pedal lever ratio not being altered. This means that you are correct Mace I will have a longer pedal throw. Anyway back to the facts: By increasing pedal effort (the amount I have to push on the pedal) I will have substantially more control and feel in an off-road scenario due to the more lever effort required.
If (as standard) I have 1" throw for 0% braking and 4" throw for 100% braking I may (no-one is quite sure, but brake techs said a 60% increase in throw length is more than reasonable). After adding the extra calipers I will have about 1" throw @ 0% and maybe 6 1/2" throw @ 100%.
I hope that all makes sense. |
By the time you buy that kit and modify it to be what you need, it will be cheaper to fabricate it yourself..
Go try to maintain the rig on a steep hill with a second set of calipers and come back and chat with us..
Think of it another way. Off road you can EASILY lock up the tires (low frictional coefficient) why would additional calipers help?