talon Vs. eclipse rear brakes

[Todd TCE]

Thanks.
I figured that would be the case. (hit it on the head; 1 3/8 vs 1 1/2") 3mm dif is a substantial amount of area. I'll run the numbers tomorrow or Tuesday and see what the bias does here. What's the smaller rotors OD? I have the larger numbers.

Thought is that if you could put the larger caliper into the bracket for the smaller one and get the slider correct you'd be effectively increasing rear bias. How much or how much you might exploit of course is another issue. Obviously you can't put the whole thing on it as the caliper will hit the rotor- for those not following this as closely as we are.

 

[Defiant]

As to rear brakes not doing much, I regularly get my 95's rear brakes too hot to touch. I don't remember the exact temperatures, I think they were in the 400s range (in my notes somewhere). That's running R4S rear pads and AS03s.


I don't have my notes with me, but I think we saw 800s on the rotors and 600s on the pads. Again I will have to check, I'll repost if the numbers were significantly different.

Well, that's about half as hot, I suppose. Or twice as cool? Damned thermodynamics. It's all just entropy anyway...... or is it enthalpy.... dammit.

 

[Todd TCE]

Interesting 'best guess' specs.

Making certain assumptions in the math;

Stock 2G has a bias of 76/24
Early 2G has a bias of 75/25 (assuming rotor OD of 9.8")

However if you can fit the early caliper body into the later slider bracket the bias shifts a bit more to 73/27. A tad more rear brake. And on a AWD car with a weighted rear axle this isn't all bad.

 

[Revolution]

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[Detail]

i have a sep 94 manufactor date 2g talon tsi awd.

i also have the vented rear rotors. im actually in the process of trying to get new ones. the dealership has no idea what im talking about when im telling them what i have vs what i need. part catalog only shows the non vented style. so i went to nopi's headquarters (friends work there). we called up brembo. after an hour or so on the phone we discovered what you guys have already been discussing. that the early 95's had this and no body else got it. brembo coincidentally is making rotors due for release in july or aug of 05. maybe this is why my brake pads that i bought (thought they were all the same) sucked on my 2g. my brakes are horrible (the rear rotors are paper thin). im hoping that buying new rotors will fix my issues, now you guys are telling me i might need diff pads too.

btw that torn up rear brakes toasted my rear diff.

ughhh, starting to hate the dsm

good luck

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