15" rotors & 6 piston calipers


Best answer I heard was from McGowen. He said that most 6 piston calipers are on cars that are front engine and heavilly load the brakes with hard braking. He said that mid engine cars don't need them and it probably saved weight.
 
PHXGT said:
Best answer I heard was from McGowen. He said that most 6 piston calipers are on cars that are front engine and heavilly load the brakes with hard braking. He said that mid engine cars don't need them and it probably saved weight.
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Interesting perspective, and one I hadn't thought of. :thumbsup
 
ChipBeck said:
Ditto :thumbsup

Ray,

Do you have an 8x10 or larger version of that photo you could sign and send me that I could frame and put in my garage? I will gladly pay to print and ship it. I expect you to sign it for FREE though. :biggrin GREAT PHOTO!!

Yellow cars not only go faster, they stop faster!

Chip
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No problem guys!! Just PM me your addresses and I will get them printed off :) (I should still have yours Chip :cheers )

And again, with this setup we still out stopped EVERYONE... so despite time constraints... budgets... using available parts... and whatever other excuse people have... To the Ford GT Design team - Damn fine job!!!! :thumbsup
 
And don't tell Frank about the yellow car comment :D

:cheers
 
Yellow? Yellow? Like a school bus? I'd take a print, just please sign it with "To my good friend and racing buddy Frank."
 
fjpikul said:
Yellow? Yellow? Like a school bus? I'd take a print, just please sign it with "To my good friend and racing buddy Frank."
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Frank you say that the red ones are faster, but the yellow ones stop the best! :biggrin
 
The Rally is a great opportunity to meet fellow GT enthusiasts, a great GT driving event, and it's an unbelievable opportunity to get face time with the great people who built the car.:thumbsup The brake-questioning owner could have taken it up later with the engineers directly. I witnessed them answer many GT owners questions during the Rally. Nobody wanted to hear him soapbox. More importantly, I don't think anyone wanted to see a re-creation of the Rally II axle-bolt tech session, it seemed like that's where it was going. :ack
 
Amen!
Thanks for the post!
 
Hey Frank!!!!

"To my good friend and racing buddy..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCAz9RrYFuQ


:cheers



:banana <---- Yellow :rofl

PM me your shipping address :biggrin
 
PHXGT said:
Best answer I heard was from McGowen. He said that most 6 piston calipers are on cars that are front engine and heavilly load the brakes with hard braking. He said that mid engine cars don't need them and it probably saved weight.
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This note from Mark, and Ray's pic are pretty good evidence there is no NEED for anything larger up front, damn near lifts the the back off the ground already.

What is even more amazing to me is that stop is done with smaller tire width up front than some others. :eek sure looks like the boys at the Blue Oval did their homework.:thumbsup
 
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Good one Peak. Looks like he can't use front brakes.
 
60-0 Ford GT 117 ft
60-0 GTR 97 ft
60-0 M3 100 ft (previous record holder for production cars)

The brakes on the GTR are massive, but VERY expensive. (To replace them would cost $7,000.)

The GT's brakes are very good, and you have to remember that it was developed 4-5 years before the GTR.

If the GT was in production today, I'd bet Ford would have the same Brembro ceramic brakes on it that are on the ZR1.
 
Ay SEMA Stormcat started a discussion with STOPTECH about ceramic brakes. Do a search, they discussed an upgrade for us. I orginally agreed to be the test fit car. Cost is in the $10k neighborhood...
 
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