What needs to be done to fit brembos to a FG

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by z80

Ford's competitors don't seem to think so.

And?


Why would Ford care what their competitors do. They offer 6 pot front and 4 pot rear Brembos as an option on GT if anyone wants them.

[MattSAU2XR8]

I reckon 6 pot Brembo's on the front sounds like a great idea. You probably don't need them for the street, but that said its not that hard to cook any other brake package if you apply yourself. Possibly Brembo 4 pots would be almost as good since I can't help wondering if it is mainly the diameter of the disc (leverage) and weight of the disc (heat sink) that determines how well it works. So best value package might in fact be Brembo 4 pot fronts with DBA slotted 1 piece rotors.

Brembos on the rear probably is a bit over the top as other people have said. The BF1 XR6T 328 mm rear brakes would be plenty good enough. You could get 'matching' DBA rotors for the rear.

Fatter wheels with larger diameter look good on most cars but make driving in the wet harder and driving on poor roads noisier. Grippier tyres would actually make the car corner faster. So ideally a Ford factory 18 inch alloy would give the best bang for buck, and also usually not have very big 'holes' through which the single pot rear calipers could be detected. Otherwise if you mostly drive it on dry days any rim that clears the Brembos would be cool.

[z80]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

And?


Why would Ford care what their competitors do. They offer 6 pot front and 4 pot rear Brembos as an option on GT if anyone wants them.

I'll leave it at that then....

[flappist]

Originally Posted by mrbaxr6t

here we go again uprating the brakes will not give you a performance boost or decreased stopping distances if you want to reduce stopping distances leave the PBRs and fit stickier tyres, the reason for this is the PBRs just like the brembos will 4 wheel lockup if you disable the ABS system this means that the brakes' stopping power is applied as a percentage of what they are capable of and this percentage is governed by the ABS to maximize stopping power without sliding, fit slicks and if then the PBRS don't lockup then you need to uprate your breaks brembos are needless showy expensive eye candy nothing more. fitting them will not decrease stopping distances fitting better tyres will

Having owned two basically identical vehicles, 1) BA Mk2 F6 fitted with PBRs, 2) BA Mk2 F6 fitted with Brembos, both with identical tyres (factory dunlops), both bought new (although the second was an unwanted cars for cancer prize) I found that the stopping distances at speed for the brembos was MUCH shorter than the PBRs.
The brembos held for longer, as in did not fade, in spirited runs on tracks and the like.

In saying this, driving around city and urban roads at 3km/h below the speed limit will really not show any difference at all, but then neither will stripes or bling bling rims.

This is not theory, this is actual practical comparisons not of a single stop in a controlled test but actual day to day driving in the real world.
N.B. real world is regional QLD and NT not inner (insert capital city here)....