[V8] inspected

[NIck Miller]

My goals are as follows:
Maintain ride comfort
Maintain/Increase braking ability over UFO's
Have a system that is affordable, or at least reasonable to maintain.

UFO's accomplish 2 of 3, BBKs that take 17's accomplish two of three, G60's
accomplish two of the three, and it seems as though mr 32 may have one that
does all three.  As well, the Merc setup on 16's should maintain ride
quality.

The hope is I'll have something capable within the year of towing a 2200lb
car on a trailer through LA without exploding.  We shall see.  It also has
occurred the auto is the true grenade in that scenario.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:15 PM, urq <urq at pacbell.net> wrote:

> ... I'd argue that if you are trying to stick with 15" wheels you'll be
> hard
> pressed to get better brakes than the UFOs ...
>
> Steve Buchholz
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> This is an SL500 caliper (4 piston) on, I believe the A8 rotor (he did two,
> one with a MB rotor, one with an A8).  For the smaller diamater wheel one,
> he didn't exactly "machine" the UFO strut housing, he ground one of the
> ears
> off the housing, and indeed did weld on the new bracket, so you can no
> longer have any other functional brake setup without massive work.  But
> who'd want to.
>
> I believe this one was to clear either most 16's or most 15's?  Kent said
> he
> has 16's.
>
> Its a good setup if you have good resources.  If you cant machine or weld,
> I'd say forget it in most cases.  I'm pursing the replication of this exact
> setup, hopefully for 15" wheels though.
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