[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by Shankenstein

The calipers taco? I thought it was the rotors going floppy tortilla. My mistake, wrong mexican metaphor.

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If a random engineer can model the von mises stress (FEA) in Catia, I would assume that Wilwood could too... plus some thermal analysis. They have the software and the engineering talent.

That project is what got me looking in the first place at a floating system. I like the size and weight of the Wilwood system. The idea of coning our rotors and sending heat to the hubs is not cool though.

Maybe it's overkill, but I haven't found my perfect setup yet (as far as size and technology). Plenty of great designs though tho.

Floating is preferred with high temps, but I haven't reached that level of brake temps on my car yet. I'm running caliper temp strips and rotor paint this weekend so I'll see what that data says (using an Essex Sprint kit). The floating Endurance setup was my initial target but Jeff talked me out of it. I check the hats, rotors/etc for cracks around the hat's all the time and nothing yet (I don't expect to honestly but I check everything brake related between sessions anyways).

Wilwood use to be king of the short track stuff but guys replaced parts often. They may be using stronger alloys now, not sure. The ex-Brembo guys I know no longer work in the industry.

Any of these brakes probably hold up fine for your average FT86er