cls6 track car by curtwill

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I think it is more about modulation now....using stock components (master cyl,prop valve), with the fronts using a larger rotor=less full revolutions to stop the wheel....this is how my mind is figuring it anyway....take the stock 11.5" rotor and run a line around the middle of the braking surface...now straighten that line and measure it...do the same for the 13"...the line will be longer...if it takes 100 wheelrevolutions to stop the small brakes...say the brake circumfrence is 20"....2000" of brake rotor surface required...if the 13" rotor has a circ. of 22"-it only requires 91 revolutions to stop-but the rear is still requiring the same as before so it is either being overworked in the back to stop at the same distance or-and more likely, they just won't be grabbing as hard as the fronts which will now be doing a larger % of the work unless we really stab them and potential for lock up is too great...flat spots suck in an endurance race....increase REAR rotor size in similar proportion to the front and it should help equalize the revolutions and therefore keep the balance similar to stock....hopefully

sounds like garbage but the more I thought about it the more sense it made

9-11-2017

pilot rotors on....lots of trial and error building my own brackets...e-brake is a thing of the past...about 20lb of excess crap pulled off since it no longer functions anyway

11-29-2017

well after my little racing incident a couple months back...the heart of the CL-s6 is now beating in an accord coupe...next race- Jan. 2018 at Laguna Seca