Brakes

[Mux213]

Oopz, look at what I gotten myself into

NoHachi, I agree with you 99%. You correctly state that if you can lock the tires then your brakes are powerfull enough, but I know that for an RX7 the single pot calipers are not powerfull enough to lock the tires when you are trying to brake at high speeds. Thats why they upgraded to 4pots.

The real question here is, are the brakes on an ae86 large enough to make high speed slowdowns nearly locking the tires (you dont want to actually lock it ,just have the ability to do so) and do that repeatably without overheating them. Looking at the spare front calipers in my shed and knowing how light an ae86 is, they probably are good enough unless you really start doing serious track work.

As for the DeLorean, the same applied there. Here it wasn't the problem that the calipers weren't big enough, but stock you have a relatively thin disk brake that couldn't take the heat of serious driving, a few times hard braking and you had no braking power left. The upgrade here was to unlarge the caliper width wise to accept a ventilated disk. Ventilated disks 'loose' heat more easily making sure you had enough braking power.

Btw, I though stock rubber lines expand more then SS lines? Or is that just a myth?