A lot of the braking technology is past down from the airline industry to the auto industry. My grandfather was a manager for Goodyear during WWII, he headed up some sick brakes for the bombers. It was all classified though, you know brakes are good when the government doesn't want other countries knowing about how you did yours! So screw BBK, just adopt the same system used on an Airbus,lol....



Regardless, everybody will have their own way of building their own cars. A forum debate is just that, forum debate...go to the track!

 

he didnt, its a race car

 

Ah, thats what I thought.

 

Seriously? They're hardly that rare, I know over here they're more than likely the most common setup around. As it happens that's what I'm using on my car simply because it's the lightest setup realistically available and well up to the task of slowing down the lesser half of 1100lbs.



j9, I'm surprised that guy with the racecar got away with no handbrake - certainly over here racing regs. are pretty stringent, eg. I will have to get a seperate reverse gearbox if I do much racing, but for the road it's not required



BTW this thread has seriously mushroomed! I think cheers is the only person actually answering questions too



Mark

 

I used to work in a junk yard, and the only times I ever came across a drum/rotor brake setup were on a few SUVs. I pulled apart hundereds of cars and never came across a car with that setup.

 

most SUV's with 4 wheel disc brakes use an internal drum on the rear disc brake as an ebrake.



especially fords.



kevin.

 

Like those?



Mark

 

I was talking like this:







The "hat" of the rotor is a drum brake and is used as the e-brake, the rotor face is then used as just a rear disc brake. hopefully you can understand it from just that pic, its hard to describe, but picture a drum brake in the hat of a rotor.



kevin.

 

Ohhhhh, I've never seen that before. It's a bit stupid if you ask me - it's like the worst of both worlds.



Mark

 

lol, its mostly a truck thing. its horrible because the e-brake inside the rotor will seize up. so if you go to just do pads and cut the rotor you wind up not being able to because you have to hammer the rotor off, so you have to replace the rotor. it doesnt always happen, but ive had it happen before.



stupid design, when all youd have to do is add a lever to the caliper to make it a parking brake itself.



damn americans.



kevin.