Re: [DML] Ventilated Cross Drilled brakes available?

["jamesrguk" <James_rg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are 4 pot callipers availble for the DeLorean which should fit 
straight on, I did post this a while ago along with some photos. 

To be honnest if you can lock the front tyres up on your DeLorean, 
there is little to be achieved by adding drilled rotors or 4 pot 
callipers.

A DeLorean with good tyres (fundimental to good braking) and well 
serviced brakes should be able to lock up the front wheels under 
very heavy braking.

Most braking problems are down to poor servicing, old fluid, worn 
pads, corroded pistons, cr*p tires and old break hoses which expand 
under braking. 

Just my 2 p


James

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <martin@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> John Hervey wrote:
> 
> >TK7542
> >#1. There are no calipers that use 4 pistons that I'm aware of.
> >
> Front ones are quite easy to find over here - the Ford RS200 used 
them 
> as standard (and they're expensive compared to the single pot ones 
by a 
> good factor of 4!). We *think* there are some rear 4-pot calipers 
but 
> they'll be £££££
> 
> >#2. I do have cross drilled solid rotors that will keep the 
rotors about 250
> >degrees cooler than original. Most companies will do the specials 
if you
> >want to buy quantity, but not 2 or 4.
> >
> *correct me if I'm wrong* but I thought that cross-drilling was to 
> eliminate brake fade as the pads get so hot they start burning and 
> releasing gasses - they do little to cool them down.It gives those 
> gasses somewhere to go. There're lots of websites out there 
arguing the 
> case for and against, but I'm personally on the side of solid 
> double-walled discs.
> 
> >#3.As far as vented rotors, the calipers have to enlarged and to 
do that
> >spacers have to be made and fitted. You can them overseas but in 
the US the
> >insurance companies rule.
> >
> The Lotus Esprit uses double-walled vented discs from a toyota 
celica 
> which are the same diameter out and inside as the DeLorean. 
> Unfortunately the mounting holes are about 1/4" further out. Very 
> annoying when we discovered this!
> 
> Martin








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