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Howard Jones · 10-26-04, 04:53 PM

The granada parts will work at road legal speeds and for road legal type brake stoping rates and distances. Also they will stop you ONCE from high speed. The rears are the problem. They will heat up the pads very fast and then with the fronts left to do all the work they go away quickly. Two stops from about 130MPH and the brakes on my car were DONE! It's not the weight ITS THE SPEED!!!!!!

So if you are in the lets get the car done mode, I was, then you will be fine until you can do a proper brake upgrade later. Just remember to take it easy on the shakedown drive!!! You don't want to scare youself right out of the box!!!!!

The peddle box would be my first upgrade during the build with the wheel assemblies, rotors and calipers, next and hubs last if ever.

10-26-04, 04:53 PM	#12 (permalink)
Howard Jones 10 tenths Join Date: Jun 2002 GT40: San Francisco Bay Area California USA Posts: 1,947 Rep Power: 26	Re: GTD brakes? The granada parts will work at road legal speeds and for road legal type brake stoping rates and distances. Also they will stop you ONCE from high speed. The rears are the problem. They will heat up the pads very fast and then with the fronts left to do all the work they go away quickly. Two stops from about 130MPH and the brakes on my car were DONE! It's not the weight ITS THE SPEED!!!!!! So if you are in the lets get the car done mode, I was, then you will be fine until you can do a proper brake upgrade later. Just remember to take it easy on the shakedown drive!!! You don't want to scare youself right out of the box!!!!! The peddle box would be my first upgrade during the build with the wheel assemblies, rotors and calipers, next and hubs last if ever.