brakes, Brakes and BRAKES, Bigger is better Options

[Bigbohr]

The size difference was so striking that I had to post a pic ...
On the left is a 914 front caliper, in the middle a 911SC front caliper and on the right a 944 Turbo front caliper. The 944 caliper can be modified to fit 911 struts.
Despite its larger size, the 944 caliper seems to weigh significantly less than the 911 A caliper. I guess an S caliper may be lighter. Other advantage of the 944 caliper is that it is a 4 piston design.

[ein 6er]

so negate the weight advantage

....it's even worse that the additional weight is rotating (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

still gotta love big brakes, not sure why they are so darn sexy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

i saw one of those new car shows, i think it "tuner tv" or something. they had been doing a series of performance mods to a honda and doing before and after runs on a dyno to see what sort of hp increase they would get. on this show they did an exhaust upgrade and a big brake kit. the new exhaust was suppose to give them X amount of an hp increase. but on the dyno, they were actually making less hp than with the stock exhaust.

they said, the the reason they were making less hp after the mod, was because of the rotating mass of the larger rotors.