Brake pad assembly position question
03-18-2001, 07:30 AM
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Hello,
I was just watching F1 this morning when I noticed something interesting. The brake pad assembly in the West Mercedes cars is located in the 6 o'clock position on the rotors. Considering some the complaints about our stock pad assemblies weight, my query is this: Would repositioning our S2000's pad assembly from its current 10 o'clock position to the 6 o'clock position garner any gains in handling due to the weight of the assembly being shifted closer to the ground? Is this even possible? What would be some undesirable results from this shift? Has this been tried on any other production car?
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I was just watching F1 this morning when I noticed something interesting. The brake pad assembly in the West Mercedes cars is located in the 6 o'clock position on the rotors. Considering some the complaints about our stock pad assemblies weight, my query is this: Would repositioning our S2000's pad assembly from its current 10 o'clock position to the 6 o'clock position garner any gains in handling due to the weight of the assembly being shifted closer to the ground? Is this even possible? What would be some undesirable results from this shift? Has this been tried on any other production car?
James
03-18-2001, 07:52 AM
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As I understand it, it makes no difference to braking or handling. It is all about packaging, suspension design, brake design, and wheel choice. I think ours are conventional, but ok where they are.
03-18-2001, 06:50 PM
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It would be very hard to change position of caliper . Honda did not give much room . The machining of Honda's parts is unbelievable side to side adapter and caliper within .001 and I am using back side of caliper mounting points.
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