AX brakes vs. Racing brakes..., what setup or both???? Options

[BKLA]

The narrow body AX/race car I purchased last October has Boxster brakes up front and "m" front calipers mounted at the rear. I just ordered Rich Johnson's rear boxster kit for the 914 and will install it before the first AX this season up here... seems like a good idea to have a matched set of brakes that are engineered to work with each other. (I believe that the car is in E mod for the PCA AX, but honestly, I have no idea.) This is all well and good for AX, but places me in all kinds of weird and uncompetative classes in PCA, SCCA and is not legal for histerical classes.

I am not planning to race the car this season, but would like to go thru a few DE days and an SCCA drivers school in order to re-activate a 15 year lapsed license... Next year though, I would like to do a few historicals as well as an SCCA race or two.

Anyway, now I have a good set of "M" fronts, a set of "M" rear (smaller piston size) calipers (rebuilt) and I was thinking...Hmmmm

I could put together a complete set of front struts and rear trailing arms with these brakes and have a legal historical, SCCA and PCA system that I could just bolt on. Of course, I need shocks to match, but I have a set of front struts as well as trailing arms with elephant racing bearings installed - so this seems like a no brainer.

Am I over thinking this? - I'm not out to win, been there done that...I'm out to have a really good time - so running in the other classes in an uncompetative car shouldn't really matter.

Any advise from the peanut gallery?

[Crazyhippy]

if the M calipers are enough for the big track, why would you want or need more for AX??

I'd build the car to be leagal for the historics the 1st time, and swap brake pads if needed as opposed to struts.

BJH

[BKLA]

if the M calipers are enough for the big track, why would you want or need more for AX??

I'd build the car to be leagal for the historics the 1st time, and swap brake pads if needed as opposed to struts.

BJH

One of the local SCCA techs (name withheld to protect the guilty) suggested that I just leave the boxster stuff on and wait to get protested. He felt that because the car is a narrow body running a TIV, most other EP drivers wouldn't care. Remember, this is just going to be a local car - maybe to seattle once in a while...and it already had boxster brakes on the front.

I just happen to have all the parts in boxes lying around to do this - maybe a project for next winter?

Aaron - Why did you want the boxster brakes when I first bought it from thomas? Wow factor only? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)