Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxim
Unfortunately, big, high quality brakes are almost a waste if the car doesn't have any ducting.
You've read Car and Driver's Lightning Lap story with the Nismo 370z right? Their 370z (equipped with huge brembos) boiled it's brake fluid and suddenly lost all braking power with no warning at 130mph. It hit the sidewall so hard that they had to use heavy towing equipment to pull it out of the wall. They did a big story on it afterwards too, to figure out exactly what went wrong. They concluded it was the ducting. Replacing the pads and fluid let the Z's brakes last much longer, but they still faded much more quickly than the 450lb heavier Camaro SS, which surprisingly experienced essentially no brake fade, even though it's braking surface area to weight ratio was worse.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...ng_lap-feature |
That's crazy. I'd expect much better from them...