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Originally Posted by Boostage
No, because my z32 calipers with 12.75 two peice rotors, hawk pads and super blue fade with my 650 lbs 2jz and Borg warner S366. and thats just stopping on the drag strip. Im a little nervous about taking the car to Sebring and putting it on the track for a 20 minute session. even on the street the stopping power isnt impressive.
Im not concerned about Piston count for aesthetics at all! I Just need the car to stop. my buddy who is getting me into road racing has an m3 and had to upgrade to a custom Porsche Brake System. as his stock m3 calpiers with hawk pads and SuperBlue wasnt cutting it. I simply asked about the piston count to find out if anyone had an idea behind their reasoning. if I cared about bling I wouldnt be posting in tech.
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Piston count has NOTHING to do with fade. Fade is all about rotor size, fluid selection, pad selection, and cooling.
What Hawk pass are you running? HPS, HP+, Blues, Blacks...
I would ditch the Super Blue and go with Brembo LCF600+ or Endless fluid.
Do you have any brake ducting? If you're running track events you should have brake ducts to cool the brakes off. If you took the brake ducts off an ALMS car they would overheat their brakes in no-time as well.
Z calipers aren't the best choice either. For THAT kind of power I would bu running at least a 1.25" thick rotor and prebably 13" even if I could. Google "Defsport wilwood setup". Those, combined with DUCTING, should be PLENTY without the stupid 6-piston calipers.
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Originally Posted by RalliartRsX
P.S racepar1, stop being a dick. Simple question the gentleman asked
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Really, fuck off. Dude posted a dumbass question. If he would have posted his ISSUE and asked for ADVICE it would have gone very differently, more like my second post. But no, dude came up with the ignorant assumption that more caliper pistons = less fade and ran with it.
Besides, being an asshole makes Zilvia more fun...
EDIT: For the un-informed, the REAL reason why more pistons is better in THEORY is because it distributes the force across the pads more evenly. A lot of calipers actually have larger pistons on the trailing side and smaller on the leading side for the same reason.