[s-cars] Porsche Big Reds or Big Blacks

[Elijahallen92 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/19/2003 5:49:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
lee at wheelman.com writes:


> Bruce writes:
> 
> >
> > Once you have enough clamping force with a brake caliper to stop the rotor
> > from turning (i.e. lock up the brakes), you have enough braking force. The
> > s-car's brakes will do that with OEM equipment. So in the scenario, a
> brake
> > upgrade is not necessary.
> 
> My stock brakes deposited a *lot* of pad material during a single hard stop.
> They'd start to shudder and make the car feel like a clapped-out old Chevy.
> 
> The pedal pressure sucked...really soft.
> 
> Yes, a brake upgrade *was* necessary :)
> 
> Lee
> 

The stock brakes are fine as long as you don't plan on doing any track 
events. If you drive hard on the street (you should be doing track events) upgrade 
the pads and you should be fine. I made the mistake of going to RA with my 
stock brakes when I first got my car. I had upgraded pads and rotors but coming 
down into turn five melted the new set of pads all the way to the metal. Since 
then and big brakes I have not had a problem other than a little controllable 
fade. Anyway track car need big brakes don't track car don't need big brakes 
unless you are going for "bling bling" which I know a lot are.

Elijah