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question about 2014 gt500 6 piston brembo calipers
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<blockquote data-quote="Cman01" data-source="post: 16097816" data-attributes="member: 138028"><p>Do you have a GT500 from an earlier year? If you have a 13/14 car your rotors wouldn't be larger since those S550 PP1/PP2 calipers use 15" rotors and that is the diameter the Trinity cars come with front rotor wise.</p><p></p><p>[USER=179203]@merkyworks[/USER], ok I see the difference in pads between our cars and the S550 PP1/PP2 ones. It looks like the pads are longer in length for the S550 but the width of the pads would have to be the same as our cars since they use the same diameter rotors. There would be a slight gain in heat dispersal but I don't think that slight improvement is worth changing out Trinity calipers to these ones. Are they also thicker new vs. Trinity pads new?</p><p></p><p>Does someone know if the actual physical size of the S550 front calipers is larger than stock 6 pot Brembo calipers? What about the piston diameters? I ask only because I'm not a huge fan of modding brake parts since everything is matched up properly from the factory. I had read that whole thread about these calipers on a S197 car (Shelby or otherwise) and the consensus is that your pedal feel and/or travel could change from factory, unless all these parts are matched up properly I would leave them alone (changing rotors, pads, fluids is fine in my book but putting different calipers, master cylinders to try and get better braking can be a disaster waiting to happen).</p><p></p><p>Our stock 6 pot Brembos work just fine, changing them out to add S550 PP1/PP2 calipers or GT350R calipers isn't something I'm comfortable doing. MO.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cman01, post: 16097816, member: 138028"] Do you have a GT500 from an earlier year? If you have a 13/14 car your rotors wouldn't be larger since those S550 PP1/PP2 calipers use 15" rotors and that is the diameter the Trinity cars come with front rotor wise. [USER=179203]@merkyworks[/USER], ok I see the difference in pads between our cars and the S550 PP1/PP2 ones. It looks like the pads are longer in length for the S550 but the width of the pads would have to be the same as our cars since they use the same diameter rotors. There would be a slight gain in heat dispersal but I don't think that slight improvement is worth changing out Trinity calipers to these ones. Are they also thicker new vs. Trinity pads new? Does someone know if the actual physical size of the S550 front calipers is larger than stock 6 pot Brembo calipers? What about the piston diameters? I ask only because I'm not a huge fan of modding brake parts since everything is matched up properly from the factory. I had read that whole thread about these calipers on a S197 car (Shelby or otherwise) and the consensus is that your pedal feel and/or travel could change from factory, unless all these parts are matched up properly I would leave them alone (changing rotors, pads, fluids is fine in my book but putting different calipers, master cylinders to try and get better braking can be a disaster waiting to happen). Our stock 6 pot Brembos work just fine, changing them out to add S550 PP1/PP2 calipers or GT350R calipers isn't something I'm comfortable doing. MO. [/QUOTE]
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