Labor Day Weekend

[nastety92]

Originally Posted by PBO

It would be moderately terrifying trying to pull that thing up with front discs the size of washers & rear drums. Totally understand why you'd want to actually stop using the C6 option

Yes the stock brakes were pretty Terrifying. Trying to stop the truck after a 1/4 mile run at the strip especially with low tire pressure made for an interesting experience. I'm really looking forward to driving the truck with these brakes. We are actually going to be running a dual rear caliper setup. One set of calipers will be used just for racing to lock the rear wheels.

Nick

[PBO]

Originally Posted by nastety92

One set of calipers will be used just for racing to lock the rear wheels.

How would that work? sounds interesting but I don't understand

[nastety92]

Originally Posted by PBO

How would that work? sounds interesting but I don't understand

There will be a toggle switch inside the truck and that will get turned on so it will lock the rear caliper, then once I go to launch the truck it will release freeing the rear wheels. It's not setup yet, but hopefully it will be soon and I'll have more info.

Nick

[nativepaul]

Originally Posted by nastety92

There will be a toggle switch inside the truck and that will get turned on so it will lock the rear caliper, then once I go to launch the truck it will release freeing the rear wheels. It's not setup yet, but hopefully it will be soon and I'll have more info.

How would that be useful? Sounds interesting but I don't understand.

When you first mentioned it I was thinking of a drifter, wanting a rear only brake to initiate slides, adding a second calliper could potentially be easier than converting the existing handbrake/Ebrake to hydraulic on some vehicles. But for the drag strip I'm baffled, is it FWD? It could be for burnouts, but I thought trucks were all 4WD or RWD and I don't see the benefit in just burning out the front tyres on a 4WD.

Unless you have a front only brake too and burn out the fronts and rears separately which would be safer than doing all 4 together.

[nastety92]

Originally Posted by nativepaul

How would that be useful? Sounds interesting but I don't understand.

When you first mentioned it I was thinking of a drifter, wanting a rear only brake to initiate slides, adding a second calliper could potentially be easier than converting the existing handbrake/Ebrake to hydraulic on some vehicles. But for the drag strip I'm baffled, is it FWD? It could be for burnouts, but I thought trucks were all 4WD or RWD and I don't see the benefit in just burning out the front tyres on a 4WD.

Unless you have a front only brake too and burn out the fronts and rears separately which would be safer than doing all 4 together.

It's going to work more like a line lock would, line lock would normally keep just the front wheels locked but this would keep the rear wheels locked. On these type of trucks it's hard to us to hold boost at the line when we are getting ready to launch. This would help keep the rear planted. This is an all wheel drive vehicle. From what I'm told this is something that the Buick Grand Nationals use on some of there vehicles.

Nick

[_paralyzed_]

Get a trans brake. Will be much more effective, and probably less complicated.