Chris has a good grasp of basic physics.
Given dream rotors, perfect balance and suspension geometry, the mass of car
and size of the tires will determine the stopping distance.
Heavier car on the same tires= longer stopping distance.
Jay, dual calipers don't decrease the amount of heat in the rotor; if
anything, it CAN run hotter with more pad area and more clamping pressure
available when faced with more mass to stop.
13" rims with giant rotors are just ONE cheap cure. Number of calipers won't
matter.
Finally,
I doubt if MOST people are going to buy a brand new car just to run a bike
motor at 825# in an economically despondent class.
So regardless of what Jay hopes his new car will weigh, most OTHER people
are faced with a 50 # or more heavier car if they switch to a bike motor.
I don't remember many places on a KBS to take off 50 or more pounds to
maintain the same as the Rotax weight.
But if they don't switch, they will be 14 to 18 HP down with their Rotax.
Hmmmm?
Chuck
From: Chris Reinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [F500] Brake Issues for MC cars
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
Jim, stopping equals heat, more stopping is more heat, that's the
issue...
CR
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One idea for increasing braking power is to double the number of
calipers on the front 10" wheels and double the calipers on the rear axle -
maybe bigger as well on the rear. Of course, cross-drilled, cryo-treated
rotors will be needed. You can see the price just keeps going up.
One of KBS' cars ran this configuration way back when and found that for a
F500 it was way too much brake power.
Just a brain storm idea.
Jim
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