brushless 1/5 4wd conversion about to begin! couple questions.

[florianz]

looks great!!

I am curious how the breaks are.

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by florianz

looks great!!

I am curious how the breaks are.

i can tell already they should work great. just with one mounted up i can roll the truck and pull the cable manually and the pads grab the disc firmly and stop the truck. i think they will stop this beast on a dime. i have to make some new discs though cuz these are 24mm and meant for the baja whereas the rampage has 22mm hexes. so i have some 2mm carbon coming this week to make my own brake discs.

[florianz]

carbon fiber brake discs, cool. do you have to balance the break-power or does that work automatically? I remember that from eg. old landrover, when the mechanical breaks are not well adjusted, the car turns right or left when breaking.

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by florianz

carbon fiber brake discs, cool. do you have to balance the break-power or does that work automatically? I remember that from eg. old landrover, when the mechanical breaks are not well adjusted, the car turns right or left when breaking.

because the center diff is locked on this truck that wont happen. technically i could only run one set of breaks and it "should" work. if i do notice anything like that though i can adjust the grab of brakes to be equal all around by adjusting the width of the pads so that all 4 grab at roughly the same time. i really wish i had a viscous center diff and could then dial in front and rear bias. i am doing the the 4-wheel brakes now even though they are not needed cuz i hope to build a viscous center diff at some point in the future. i guess it will depend mostly on how i like the locked center diff.