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Installing ATS Brembos on the Cobra.
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<blockquote data-quote="Talleywacker" data-source="post: 16417408" data-attributes="member: 18068"><p><a href="https://www.apcautotech.com/getmedia/34cf39cc-e81d-4d89-873c-a1ca7fb7347e/Centric_and_APC_Technical_Whitepaper_D2-MONOBLOC_8-2018.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.apcautotech.com/getmedia/34cf39cc-e81d-4d89-873c-a1ca7fb7347e/Centric_and_APC_Technical_Whitepaper_D2-MONOBLOC_8-2018.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Here is a good read on caliper strength/flex. This is the absolute ONLY thing I cannot find is the aluminum structure of the caliper. It could be worth sending say a stoptech caliper and a ATS caliper to a metallurgy testing facility and they could come back with the exact makeup and still this wouldn't provide any exact flexing data for at temperature use. I look at the caliper and you need piston area and strength of the caliper. In that article it mentions a well designed 4 piston will have less caliper flex than a well designed 6 piston. There is way more to the technical side that I simply just don't have any data to support if the ATS/XTS would truly be a performance application upgrade or cosmetic at best.</p><p></p><p>For the record... I know guys who road race with the PBR calipers using hawk DTC pads with good success but they are lighter 3klb gutted race cars.</p><p></p><p>For anyone who puts brembos on their car with a street pad..... they don't need brembos either.... 1000% cosmetic. Pretty sad that my pads alone cost more than these brembo calipers. Max out the current brake system with the proper pad and then upgrade brake system with the new proper pad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Talleywacker, post: 16417408, member: 18068"] [URL]https://www.apcautotech.com/getmedia/34cf39cc-e81d-4d89-873c-a1ca7fb7347e/Centric_and_APC_Technical_Whitepaper_D2-MONOBLOC_8-2018.pdf[/URL] Here is a good read on caliper strength/flex. This is the absolute ONLY thing I cannot find is the aluminum structure of the caliper. It could be worth sending say a stoptech caliper and a ATS caliper to a metallurgy testing facility and they could come back with the exact makeup and still this wouldn't provide any exact flexing data for at temperature use. I look at the caliper and you need piston area and strength of the caliper. In that article it mentions a well designed 4 piston will have less caliper flex than a well designed 6 piston. There is way more to the technical side that I simply just don't have any data to support if the ATS/XTS would truly be a performance application upgrade or cosmetic at best. For the record... I know guys who road race with the PBR calipers using hawk DTC pads with good success but they are lighter 3klb gutted race cars. For anyone who puts brembos on their car with a street pad..... they don't need brembos either.... 1000% cosmetic. Pretty sad that my pads alone cost more than these brembo calipers. Max out the current brake system with the proper pad and then upgrade brake system with the new proper pad. [/QUOTE]
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