[DeTomaso] Techno Question: Competion Brakes

[Charles Engles]

Dear Kirby,


          1) I love your technical explanations!
          2) Thanks for the info.  Maybe I just need some new brake pads...
          3)  I think that I have the same brakes on 7171 that you have on your race car, 1921
          


                     Warmest regards, Chuck Engles





-----Original Message-----
From: Kirby Schrader [mailto:kirbyschrader at mac.com] 
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 2:48 PM
To: Charles Engles
Cc: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Techno Question: Competion Brakes

Chuck,

On 1661, the silver car, I have six piston Wilwoods ‘minis’ on the front and four piston Wilwoods on the back.
On 1921, the race car, I have six piston Wilwood ‘Grand Nationals’ on the front and the same four piston Wilwoods on the back.

Both cars stop just fine, thank you very much.
1661 has had them on the car since 1985. No problems.

Both setups were for 15” wheels. Can’t run anything else on the race car.
Even though I have 18” wheels on 1661, I haven’t found a reason to change them. Might look ‘cooler’ if I had big brakes on the front, but even with the mini six piston calipers, using slicks on the car, I could practically stand the car on its nose. The back brakes don’t do a hell of a lot on the Pantera anyway…

I do use a more aggressive pad… Forget which one, but if you have to know I can go and find out.
R3? Sounds familiar for some reason. I use the same pads on the GT40. It, too, has Wilwoods all around.
Four piston front and rear.
All three cars use the same pads.
Note that although the pads are great for stopping, on the street, they will start to screech after awhile. You just need to do a nice hard stop once in awhile and they shut up.

My two cents on the matter,
Kirby


> On Oct 31, 2015, at 14:02, Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>   Dear Forum,
> 
> 
> 
>                             I ran the Pantera at TWS.   I have twenty +
>   year old Pantera Performance Center brakes, namely, the "NASCAR" set up
>   IIRC.   Six piston calipers in the front and four piston in the rear.
> 
> 
> 
>                            IF I was keen to go back to the track and IF I
>   wanted the current "state of the art" brake system.......THEN what are
>   the best regarded competition rotors and calipers with quick change
>   pads currently??
> 
> 
> 
>                                                Curious,  Chuck Engles 
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