My EBC Brakes Initial Review

[Vinnie320]

Can someone tell me what they mean by a 16inch brake system..???
:shock:

16" diameter on the brake disc? If so, that's massive!

Pete, Vincenzo is always right

[Turblue]

Ok.... Remember these are 17 inch rims.

308mm = front
264mm = rear

[Molky]

ABS is nice...but not a necessity if you know what you're doing. It is safer, but you can actually stop quicker without ABS.

ABS is quicker, it has been proven. In the early days of ABS on production cars, a test was performed by Mercedes off memory, using two identical cars, apart from the fact that one had ABS and one didnt.

The driver was Ayrton Senna. After many different techniques were used in the non ABS car, Senna could not pull up the non ABS car in the same distance, there wasn't much difference (it was only about a metre or so) but there was a difference.

If you know what you are doing it certainly makes a difference, but the speed that ABS works, cant compare to a human - even someone as good as Senna.

[ultim8DTM5]

308mm =/= 16in lol
16in is about 405mm

[astra_city]

ABS is nice...but not a necessity if you know what you're doing. It is safer, but you can actually stop quicker without ABS.

ABS is quicker, it has been proven. In the early days of ABS on production cars, a test was performed by Mercedes off memory, using two identical cars, apart from the fact that one had ABS and one didnt.

The driver was Ayrton Senna. After many different techniques were used in the non ABS car, Senna could not pull up the non ABS car in the same distance, there wasn't much difference (it was only about a metre or so) but there was a difference.

If you know what you are doing it certainly makes a difference, but the speed that ABS works, cant compare to a human - even someone as good as Senna.

well there you go, thanks for that! Well I do know for a fact that rally cars stop much better without ABS hehe

[frankie9fingers]

Sorry it took so long.
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[Degen-Astra]

Blue and Green should never be seen except on the front wheels of my machine!

THANK YA FRANKIE!!

[Molky]

well there you go, thanks for that! Well I do know for a fact that rally cars stop much better without ABS hehe

Yeh offroad, I agree with that, thats why many "real" 4wd dont have ABS, because if you are on a loose surface, like sand, loose gravel, dirt, locking the wheels pushes the loose surface aside exposing the harder more stable surface underneith

[frankie9fingers]

but you could always rig up a switch to disable the abs.