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Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour
I say bigger brakes are needed and I'll put them in after I do my SC add on... why?
Right now, I can make it from a stoplight near my house to the freeway light, reaching about 60 mph. With the supercharger, I might make it 5-10 mph faster, which means I'll need more braking power to handle the increase in speed over the same distance.
Now I don't do much street racing from light to light (actually, I don't do any at all), but I figure that braking ability should rise with horsepower to keep things safe. There's only one thing more important than going fast... being able to stop faster to speed up again in the future.
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Hi,
As already stated, the biggest gain from using bigger brakes is gong to be their Fade Resistance, and this only shows up in Rapid Repeated Use, such as on a Track. If you're not Braking every 5-10sec., adequate time has passed for the Brakes to cool, about 20-30sec. is sufficient time to avoid Fade.
If the current Brakes are adequate, they're just that - sufficient to do the job. Just because you get to 60MPH
Faster doesn't mean it has suddenly, myteriously, become more difficult to Brake to a Stop from 60MPH.
If you simply want to add them as
Automotive Jewelry, that's perfectly FINE. But, simply adding a Supercharger is no justification for upgrading the Brakes.
If you just want them, then go ahead. But not for the sake of some convoluted logic which says that because you are making more power, your current Brakes are somehow automatically inadequate - you're OFF the power when you apply your Brakes anyway. If your Driving Style or Conditions haven't changed, the OEM Brakes are not at all inadequate...
Happy Motoring!... Jim'99
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