BMW FRONT CALIPERS-you may be wrong Options

[Krieger]

I keep hearing this idea that BMW calipers add more heat vs stock caliper. I am not a physicist but any 2000 lb car going 60 mph with stock brakes is going to generate a certain amount of heat. Take the same exact car with smaller calipers (yes smaller) does it generate less heat? I don't think so. It is going to generate the same heat. The only thing that may change is the brake distance and time required to stop. Perhaps this extra couple of seconds it takes to stop allows more time to cool the brakes a tiny bit more, oh but your heating them longer. BMW calipers will add the same heat but faster. That is it. Other points are: the BMW rotors that these calipers were originally designed for are really close in diameter and thickness to our 914s. I'm sure someone will eventually post them. These BMW 320's were quite a bit heavier than our 914s as well. BMW used this combonation for 5 years it must have been a decent.