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| The caliper bolts on and brake line hooks up and you are done! |
Best of all, our pad wear was much reduced. After two weekends of track use, our pads probably have enough material left for two more track events! That’s almost double the wear that we were getting before. A lot of this is due to the thicker pad but the increased pad surface area probably has something to do with it too.
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| The much larger caliper is apparent in this picture. |
This was all greatly positive for a 2200 lb race car but it should be even better on a heavier 2600 lb street/track day car although the heavy car could probably use a more aggressive pad on the track.
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| Since the car already had upgraded brakes, the bigger brakes didn’t affect lap time but they helped consistency and made the car easier to drive. The greatly increased pad life will pay for the calipers in about a season of use. |
In short for a low cost and very effective brake upgrade, the 11″ kit works fine. (this is the kit Annie Sam uses on her NX2000 race car) A heavier and faster car like the Dog II should use the 11.8″ kit and if you really need to go bigger, you should go straight to the largest new Superlite caliper kit. The bigger kit will pay for itself in longer pad life as well as offer better, more consistent performance.
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