Article on designing custom brakes...

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Article on designing custom brakes...
October 16, 2007 12:33PM

Registered: 01/11/2006
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It's really not rocket science.
http://www.rallydesign.co.uk/catalog/pdf/designing_4_pot_brakes.pdf

Hey Tim, did you ever finish your GTX setup?

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Re: Article on designing custom brakes...
October 16, 2007 01:17PM

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It's getting closer. Just got the brake hats back from from the platers last week with some Type-III hard anodizing on them.

Sitting there on the desk just taunting me while I design boring parking garage equipment...

I changed them back to floating T-slotted rotor mounting (it was the original plan before I got lazy) with titanium T-nuts...well, because I could. And I had some time while I was waiting for rims. Then I bought a house and just about everything stopped.

I should actually get some more time to really work on it toward the end of next month. Plus John is shipping me some inserts/tubes and other parts to do a set of struts at the same time.

Tim

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Re: Article on designing custom brakes...
October 16, 2007 01:23PM

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Good read.

I love how they say "Dont use crossdrilled or slotted rotors, they are for appearance" and the two pictures on the page are of Slotted and Slotted/Crossdrilled rotors.