Older cars are fun to drive for a number of reasons, but poor braking performance shouldn't be one of them.
As soon as NASCAR announced that its big, heavy Cup cars would be tackling Daytona’s full road course this August, a popular question arose: How will the brakes do under such punishment?
What does hygroscopic mean, and what does it have to do with brake fluid? What's so special about DOT 5 brake fluid? We give you the "brake"-down on these questions and more in our next issue.
Street or Track? The Ford GT’s Brakes Change With the Specific Mission.
Scared of tackling brake plumbing? With these tricks and the right tools, you can bend lines like a pro.
Brakes should both correct speed and balance the chassis. The brakes on our 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo did virtually none of that, so it was time for a change–a big brake change.
Street or track? The Ford GT’s brakes change with the specific mission.
How safe are your brakes?
Understanding how to talk upgrades with braking experts–and how to get the parts you need.
Before we started replacing anything major, like the transmission, we decided to do first some simple repairs on our 1967 Shelby GT350. After all, it’s been sitting for a …
At our first track day in our Porsche 997, we began to run out of brakes. Despite Porsche’s reputation for superior stopping performance, the FIRM can be a …
In our last brake update, we fitted a set of 3D-printed brake cooling deflectors. Our goal? To keep our very street-friendly pads–Pagid’s new STREET+ line–working even …
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Suspension, power, must be time for brakes on our Mk7 Volkswagen GTI, right?
We’d …
We replaced the stock drums with Cobra Automotive’s HSR-legal disc brake kit–basically a duplicate of the parts used by Trans-Am teams back in the day–but we still needed …
